On 6/23/2010 5:35 PM, Darren New wrote:
> I find that usually windows seems sluggish when there is either heavy
> disk activity or something running at a normal priority and taking up a
> bunch of CPU time that you don't notice. (Moreso the former.)
>
> If you just installed Win7 within a day or two, you might be feeling the
> pain of it trying to index the entire hard drive for searching, or some
> such.

It's been a bit over two months. I've got all my favorite apps 
installed. Most everything is set up like it was on XP.


> When you open the resource manager, do you see something running that
> takes up a lot of time?

I use a combination of Process Explorer and Process Lasso to control 
process priorities. Running at idle the CPU usually stays under 5% 
utilization. It will start sputtering when my antivirus wants to update. 
Also, I messed up Thunderbird somehow so that now it always wants 15-20% 
for no reason, so I don't leave it running anymore like it was. Will 
have to try and reinstall that...


> I had some driver problems with Vista (the hard drive virtual raid bit
> interfering with the sound card or something weird) that had a system
> task repeatedly crashing and then starting up at full bore over and
> over. If you have a pre-install, it might be conflicting drivers or
> something.



> In any case, open up the resource manager (which you can get to from the
> task manager in Vista) and see what's making it slow - disk or CPU or
> memory swapping or what.
>

I will try and take a screenshot after a fresh reboot. I don't 
understand the values enough to interpret them myself.



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