Vista woes...
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What a distaster Vista is (but I have it now and may as well stick it out until Windows7 comes along) - Clearly Microsoft know this too, otherwise they wouldn't already be talking up Windows7... The UAC is a nightmare; it may make for a more secure system, but at what price? As an analagy, I can reduce my risks of being run over by a bus by never going out of my house, but what kind of life is that? And too mnay applictions won't run. Visual Studio 2003 will, but it tells you it has "issues" - it is incredible that Microsoft aren't officially supporting VS2003 on Vista. Anyway... I have noticed that my Hard Disk light is constantly on. Looking on various forums I see that others have this "problem" too. I have tried disabling indexing and superfetch, but neither makes any difference. The only time it goes off is when the computer is reading from a CD/DVD. However, if one listens carefully, you can hear when the disk itself is being accessed - or can one? What is that faint scraping? Is it when reading, writing, or both? If just when writing, then why is Vista constantly reading my disk, with indexing and pretetch off? If reading and writing, I wonfer why the light is on when there is no (apparent) disk activity? I can't imagine it's only when reading... Could it simply be a hardware error - something wired up wrong? I really want to know if this is something I should be concerned about... P
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What a distaster Vista is (but I have it now and may as well stick it out until Windows7 comes along) - Clearly Microsoft know this too, otherwise they wouldn't already be talking up Windows7... The UAC is a nightmare; it may make for a more secure system, but at what price? As an analagy, I can reduce my risks of being run over by a bus by never going out of my house, but what kind of life is that? And too mnay applictions won't run. Visual Studio 2003 will, but it tells you it has "issues" - it is incredible that Microsoft aren't officially supporting VS2003 on Vista. Anyway... I have noticed that my Hard Disk light is constantly on. Looking on various forums I see that others have this "problem" too. I have tried disabling indexing and superfetch, but neither makes any difference. The only time it goes off is when the computer is reading from a CD/DVD. However, if one listens carefully, you can hear when the disk itself is being accessed - or can one? What is that faint scraping? Is it when reading, writing, or both? If just when writing, then why is Vista constantly reading my disk, with indexing and pretetch off? If reading and writing, I wonfer why the light is on when there is no (apparent) disk activity? I can't imagine it's only when reading... Could it simply be a hardware error - something wired up wrong? I really want to know if this is something I should be concerned about... P
Don't expect UAC to go away in Windows 7. Maybe it will be less annoying in W7. But i would not keep my hope on that. According to reports it is Annoying by design. To force us developers to create applications that follow the guidelines and to allow the apps we create to be able to run as a standard user. Go see what is reading/writing to your disk. you can open the "Reliability and Performance Monitor" in Vista and click on "Disk", and you will see what files and process are doing the read/writes. (Or just download process monitor from sysinternals.com ) - Mathias
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What a distaster Vista is (but I have it now and may as well stick it out until Windows7 comes along) - Clearly Microsoft know this too, otherwise they wouldn't already be talking up Windows7... The UAC is a nightmare; it may make for a more secure system, but at what price? As an analagy, I can reduce my risks of being run over by a bus by never going out of my house, but what kind of life is that? And too mnay applictions won't run. Visual Studio 2003 will, but it tells you it has "issues" - it is incredible that Microsoft aren't officially supporting VS2003 on Vista. Anyway... I have noticed that my Hard Disk light is constantly on. Looking on various forums I see that others have this "problem" too. I have tried disabling indexing and superfetch, but neither makes any difference. The only time it goes off is when the computer is reading from a CD/DVD. However, if one listens carefully, you can hear when the disk itself is being accessed - or can one? What is that faint scraping? Is it when reading, writing, or both? If just when writing, then why is Vista constantly reading my disk, with indexing and pretetch off? If reading and writing, I wonfer why the light is on when there is no (apparent) disk activity? I can't imagine it's only when reading... Could it simply be a hardware error - something wired up wrong? I really want to know if this is something I should be concerned about... P
Phil Uribe wrote:
The UAC is a nightmare; it may make for a more secure system, but at what price?
I actually like UAC, for the most part. But if you don't like it use "gpedit.msc" to turn it off.
Phil Uribe wrote:
Anyway... I have noticed that my Hard Disk light is constantly on. Looking on various forums I see that others have this "problem" too. I have tried disabling indexing and superfetch, but neither makes any difference. The only time it goes off is when the computer is reading from a CD/DVD.
I had this problem, it turned out to be the "Shadow Copy". See here[^] for step-by-step instructions on how to turn it off.
Steve
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What a distaster Vista is (but I have it now and may as well stick it out until Windows7 comes along) - Clearly Microsoft know this too, otherwise they wouldn't already be talking up Windows7... The UAC is a nightmare; it may make for a more secure system, but at what price? As an analagy, I can reduce my risks of being run over by a bus by never going out of my house, but what kind of life is that? And too mnay applictions won't run. Visual Studio 2003 will, but it tells you it has "issues" - it is incredible that Microsoft aren't officially supporting VS2003 on Vista. Anyway... I have noticed that my Hard Disk light is constantly on. Looking on various forums I see that others have this "problem" too. I have tried disabling indexing and superfetch, but neither makes any difference. The only time it goes off is when the computer is reading from a CD/DVD. However, if one listens carefully, you can hear when the disk itself is being accessed - or can one? What is that faint scraping? Is it when reading, writing, or both? If just when writing, then why is Vista constantly reading my disk, with indexing and pretetch off? If reading and writing, I wonfer why the light is on when there is no (apparent) disk activity? I can't imagine it's only when reading... Could it simply be a hardware error - something wired up wrong? I really want to know if this is something I should be concerned about... P
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What a distaster Vista is (but I have it now and may as well stick it out until Windows7 comes along) - Clearly Microsoft know this too, otherwise they wouldn't already be talking up Windows7... The UAC is a nightmare; it may make for a more secure system, but at what price? As an analagy, I can reduce my risks of being run over by a bus by never going out of my house, but what kind of life is that? And too mnay applictions won't run. Visual Studio 2003 will, but it tells you it has "issues" - it is incredible that Microsoft aren't officially supporting VS2003 on Vista. Anyway... I have noticed that my Hard Disk light is constantly on. Looking on various forums I see that others have this "problem" too. I have tried disabling indexing and superfetch, but neither makes any difference. The only time it goes off is when the computer is reading from a CD/DVD. However, if one listens carefully, you can hear when the disk itself is being accessed - or can one? What is that faint scraping? Is it when reading, writing, or both? If just when writing, then why is Vista constantly reading my disk, with indexing and pretetch off? If reading and writing, I wonfer why the light is on when there is no (apparent) disk activity? I can't imagine it's only when reading... Could it simply be a hardware error - something wired up wrong? I really want to know if this is something I should be concerned about... P
Control Panel, System and Maintenance, Performance Information and Tools, click Advanced Tools in the left-hand pane and click Open Reliability and Performance Monitor. Click the down-arrow in the Disk heading to see what tasks are performing I/O. I found that Windows Live Messenger was performing a lot of I/O when the folder sharing feature was enabled.
DoEvents: Generating unexpected recursion since 1991
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What a distaster Vista is (but I have it now and may as well stick it out until Windows7 comes along) - Clearly Microsoft know this too, otherwise they wouldn't already be talking up Windows7... The UAC is a nightmare; it may make for a more secure system, but at what price? As an analagy, I can reduce my risks of being run over by a bus by never going out of my house, but what kind of life is that? And too mnay applictions won't run. Visual Studio 2003 will, but it tells you it has "issues" - it is incredible that Microsoft aren't officially supporting VS2003 on Vista. Anyway... I have noticed that my Hard Disk light is constantly on. Looking on various forums I see that others have this "problem" too. I have tried disabling indexing and superfetch, but neither makes any difference. The only time it goes off is when the computer is reading from a CD/DVD. However, if one listens carefully, you can hear when the disk itself is being accessed - or can one? What is that faint scraping? Is it when reading, writing, or both? If just when writing, then why is Vista constantly reading my disk, with indexing and pretetch off? If reading and writing, I wonfer why the light is on when there is no (apparent) disk activity? I can't imagine it's only when reading... Could it simply be a hardware error - something wired up wrong? I really want to know if this is something I should be concerned about... P
..turns out to have been the IDE CD/DVD drive. Replaced it with a serial one and now all is fine.... I am sure there is an explanation somewhere...