Tweaking Vista

Posted by Theo van der Sluijs on 4 Jul 2007 in MS Windows | 0 comments

The last view days I was wondering why my harddisks kept doing something when using Windows Vista.

When I visited some sites I found out that Windows Vista does a lot of things to keep itself fast. 

Like auto defrag my harddisk, indexing al files to speed up searching and prefetching. (a way to extend the virtual memory)

I don’t think that my harddisk likes this very mucht, I wonder if my harddisks life will shorten because of this.

On many sites it says that leaving your pc on for a night will solve this problem. (Vista then will be ready indexing en prefetching e.g.) So I did… and it did not help.

I think these 3 “services” are running in a visual circle.

Vista defrags my Harddisk, Vista renews the file index and creates a new prefetch, and Vista defrags again……

Never ending story

So…….

Theo van der Sluijs

Theo van der Sluijs (1975) is Software Development Manager at Bax-shop.nl. You can read more in dutch on his “Dutch Blog“, he also created Gebruikmaar.nl. He is a member of the Board of the Dutch Flex Usergroup and Goesweb.net.

   

Vista cannot connect to XP printer share

Posted by Theo van der Sluijs on 29 Jun 2007 in MS Windows | 0 comments

Well…. Vista… I have it on my new Dell pc.
It looks great, but Windows ME also looked great.

Windows Vista like Windows ME is far from a workable product.

Like connection to my XP Shared printer. It just doesn’t work !

Theo van der Sluijs

Theo van der Sluijs (1975) is Software Development Manager at Bax-shop.nl. You can read more in dutch on his “Dutch Blog“, he also created Gebruikmaar.nl. He is a member of the Board of the Dutch Flex Usergroup and Goesweb.net.