Who else is using Windows Vista? I bought a new flash laptop that should be running like an elite athlete. It came loaded ith Winows Vista and instead of lapping my old PC the new one lags behind like an asthmatic. There’s so much processing powr required the Windows circle logo pops up and spins around at nearly every turn.
How bad is Vista?
Vista isn’t bad… but I understand your frustration.
It isn’t actually any slower than XP on a decent PC, however it has extra services which were not enabled by default on previous versions of Windows.
Vista will use your idle processing time to do silly things like defragment your hard drive, which isn’t particularly necessary except on PCs with large-scale turnover of files.
It also does something rather interesting which may change the way you look for your documents in future.
Vista introduces the concept of “saved searches” to Windows. Vista constantly indexes your hard drive and stores what it finds in a big database, making your searches almost instant.
This may not be particularly useful to an organised person, or to someone who would like to reclaim their PC’s resources, which is why I’ve turned mine off. However, it does allow interesting new ways to store your files.
Lets say you have your digital music stored neatly in subfolders by artist, then by album. How will you quickly find your most recent purchases, so you can drive the rest of your family nuts by playing them over and over?
Well, you’d search for them of course. You’d search your whole music folder, by descending date, but rather than having to do this every time you wanted to find all your newest additions, Vista allows you to save that search, so it appears as a special folder with files in it.
Because of that slow cumbersome feeling you describe, and resulting from all that hard drive thrashing you hear, the database of files returns your search quick as a flash.
You can now put that ’saved search’ anywhere, and access it as if it were just another folder. One-click access to all your newest songs, without having to modify your elaborate subfolder structure.
The possibilities are endless, of course, but that doesn’t stop the indexing service being any less annoying.
… and it’s not the smartest thing to enable on laptops by default, because it drains your battery much more quickly.
If this laptop is your main PC, there’s an argument for leaving this turned on, but if not, I think you’re far better off turning off indexing.
There are lots of options though, including just having Vista index your most important documents instead of the whole drive, so give yourself a little time to ponder your choice, as reindexing everything once you’ve turned it off is quite an intensive task.
Congrats on the new purchase, and sorry for the long post 
haha walter give it up and use your MacBook instead.
Dave
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