in which we retract a [Vista] post

By basd on Oct 3, 2010 | In -arghhh!!, vista

So, I was complaining about Vista being really, really, really slow on my Gateway LT3103u, to the point of being non-useable.?? After many hours of troubleshooting, I think, possibly, or maybe, the problem was not Vista.? But, indeed, ifolder.

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I commenced shutting down services, which of course, will bite me at some time in the future, but in any event, what do I need the tablet input process running on a computer that does not have tablet capability?? Naturally, I have forgotten what I shut off -- although it is written dutifully on the back of an envelope that I cannot find.? Another being the Microsoft Search indexing because I have never found indexing the least bit useful, so why do programmers insist on running this by default?? (And here I am referring to the KDE indexing counterpart(s) as well. )

But, after all the commencing to shut down stuff ... still mighty slow.? So, I tried to shut off my iFolder daemon and it would not respond.? Which was particularly weird since my iFolder server was not up and running anyway.? (Or maybe that was the problem.)? But I don't actually have iFolder synchronizing anything to this computer at the moment, so really not needed.? Removing it seemed to speed things up considerably, so that Vista is now really slow.? But as you can see, that is a couple of "reallys" faster than I started out with.? (And other than iFolder, this is a completely clean install!)

I then decided to defraggle (not to be confused with defrag, as I use the Pirifom version).? After oddly having more fragmentation each pass -- until I was at about 45% fragmented and 16 gb affected, I commenced shutting off more stuff.? I turned off "restore" -- new install, nothing to be lost anyway -- and the page file.? I had previously run without the paging file and Vista ran much faster.? But, after the re-install, I started having blue screen of death, meaning the ram was no longer sufficient to avoid using the paging file.? This was maybe related to iFolder?? (iFolder ended up on this computer before I did much other setup on it, btw, because I was testing to see if the Windows iFolder client would work.? Maybe not my best plan ...

Well, all that gave me a lot more disk space and got the fragmentation down to about 1%.? I guess I can turn restore and paging back on now.

Or not.