VSS is culprit. Reschedule System Restore defaults from: every day and every startup to once or twice a week.

hi, i’ve been using a vaio g-type with vista in my live performances, since i moved to vista i’ve
encountered glitches and cutout of the audio signal,-which were not related to the soundcard or processor, these modifications to the registry seem to have corrected the problem, !thank you very much for posting them!

Just my 2 cents – I don’t get the disk thrashing on my vista laptop…maybe its an issue with hardware that’s been upgraded?

Fernando, my experience with the changes is still very good. I find the performance overall to be the same as it was under XP, and that makes me very happy. There is still some random disk activity, particularly when idle, which is not surprising because that’s when Windows Desktop Search does it’s indexing of the HDD. It’s not system stopping and goes away as soon as I do something like it should. BTW, you can use the system performance meter to tell exactly what processes are causing either memory or disk activity.

P1610 here, I don’t notice much change. In fact I’m on my P1610 right now and every 30-60 seconds I get a major thrash that stutters my typing, then it goes back to normal.

Hopefully you can try that 2gb stick in your P1610 as well, I have a feeling that’s really the only thing thats going to save us.

Hello James:

I was wondering how your P1610 was performing after a few days of making these registry changes. Mine does seem to be performing better, but I still get a LOT of disk activity, even when the machine is pretty idle.

Thanks

Check out the silliest issues in vista http://cacheyourcash.blogspot.com/2007/05/vista-vista-vista.html

I went ahead and reinstalled Vista on my P1610 and made these registry changes. Kudos go to you guys who figured this out. It does indeed work better now in going into sleep mode (much faster) and dimishing the extent of the disk thrashing episodes.

It does seem though that the disk is still pretty busy (does that happens with UMPCs and others as well?), so I imagine that there will be other tweaks to the registry that can help. There is an “EnablePrefetcher” for example that is set to (3) in mine.

Thanks again, I wish Fujitsu provided this level of technical support.

That should read “no” install option when I right click.

Thanks, but on install when I right click.

Charles, I haven’t looked at it but assuming it is a .reg file just right-click it and select install. Back up your registry first though.

Mike, Vista tries to be smart and prefetches content to memory that it thinks you might need next. Problem is on mobile devices with slower processors, hard disks and low memory this can be an unnecessary (and intolerable) overhead. Paging is just that, swapping stuff out to disk as you go along. I think it comes into play during regular usage, standby, hibernation and even ReadyBoost stuff. I’m no expert but that’s what I understand is going on. So far turning it off has been a God send to me.

Sorry to be so dumb, but how do you run the script? When I click on the file nothing happens.
Thanks

In the origamiproject thread you can find tests proving how performance is increased once these hacks are applied.

I have been using these hacks for al least 4 days now, and I have not seem any problems.

http://origamiproject.com/forums/thread/19843.aspx

I have the Q1P and I do notice the disk thrashing but its not that often and when it does, it really doesn’t slow me down. Also I haven’t had a problem going in standby usually it takes 7 secs. and to resume about the same. James keep us inform how it works for you.

HG

Ok, I’m still not clear on WTF Vista was *doing* that made it thrash the disk. Can you give some details about that? I’m glad to read of a solution — but is this something will be a Gotcha down the road too?