Comments on: How to Kill Windows Vista Bottlenecks: Pt. II, Stop the Disk Churning http://createdigitalmusic.com/2007/04/05/how-to-kill-windows-vista-bottlenecks-pt-ii-stop-the-disk-churning/ The latest gear, software, and techniques for electronic music production and performance Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:48:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: johnElectric http://createdigitalmusic.com/2007/04/05/how-to-kill-windows-vista-bottlenecks-pt-ii-stop-the-disk-churning/#comment-460576 johnElectric Fri, 02 May 2008 23:58:55 +0000 http://createdigitalmusic.com/2007/04/05/how-to-kill-windows-vista-bottlenecks-pt-ii-stop-the-disk-churning/#comment-460576 THANKS! I've been working (or trying to work) with Ableton on Vista for a while and have been experiencing horrible issues with clipping and such with the audio. Great! Some stuff in Vista is terrible, for instance with the very commonly used ATI Video Cards, when you upgrade the RAM (like I did) going into full screen mode with flash applications causes the screen to crash! WTF VISTA?!?!?! Can't wait until some upgrades come out. THANKS! I’ve been working (or trying to work) with Ableton on Vista for a while and have been experiencing horrible issues with clipping and such with the audio. Great!

Some stuff in Vista is terrible, for instance with the very commonly used ATI Video Cards, when you upgrade the RAM (like I did) going into full screen mode with flash applications causes the screen to crash! WTF VISTA?!?!?! Can’t wait until some upgrades come out.

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]]> By: Matt http://createdigitalmusic.com/2007/04/05/how-to-kill-windows-vista-bottlenecks-pt-ii-stop-the-disk-churning/#comment-378601 Matt Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:44:06 +0000 http://createdigitalmusic.com/2007/04/05/how-to-kill-windows-vista-bottlenecks-pt-ii-stop-the-disk-churning/#comment-378601 I have one issue regarding completely disabling the windows search feature. If you are like me and can only afford one computer for both work and play, turning off the search feature also disables a number of nice search functions in the latest office package, which I find myself using quite often.I thought maybe it could just be disabled for a specific recording hardware profile but Vista has kindly removed access to this feature. If anyone knows how to create and use multiple hardware profiles on Vista, please kindly share. I have one issue regarding completely disabling the windows search feature. If you are like me and can only afford one computer for both work and play, turning off the search feature also disables a number of nice search functions in the latest office package, which I find myself using quite often.I thought maybe it could just be disabled for a specific recording hardware profile but Vista has kindly removed access to this feature.

If anyone knows how to create and use multiple hardware profiles on Vista, please kindly share.

]]> By: Paul DeLeeuw http://createdigitalmusic.com/2007/04/05/how-to-kill-windows-vista-bottlenecks-pt-ii-stop-the-disk-churning/#comment-288074 Paul DeLeeuw Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:35:33 +0000 http://createdigitalmusic.com/2007/04/05/how-to-kill-windows-vista-bottlenecks-pt-ii-stop-the-disk-churning/#comment-288074 YES! Finally, after living with Vista going slooow. Disabling suoerfetch solved the problem. Before, on boot-up the computer would be virtually paralysed for about 15 minutes, with very little processor use shown. Now, disabling superfetch, things are almost as good as they were with XP. YES! Finally, after living with Vista going slooow. Disabling suoerfetch solved the problem. Before, on boot-up the computer would be virtually paralysed for about 15 minutes, with very little processor use shown. Now, disabling superfetch, things are almost as good as they were with XP.

]]> By: Nicky Bentley http://createdigitalmusic.com/2007/04/05/how-to-kill-windows-vista-bottlenecks-pt-ii-stop-the-disk-churning/#comment-285687 Nicky Bentley Sat, 13 Oct 2007 19:02:21 +0000 http://createdigitalmusic.com/2007/04/05/how-to-kill-windows-vista-bottlenecks-pt-ii-stop-the-disk-churning/#comment-285687 Wow. Thank you North W. I was rendering the video when I was doing super fetch. It was going so slow because it was rendering while the hard drive was doing its stupid daily churning. As soo as I type in stop surper fetch and hit enter and got the mesaage that it was done. The hard drive speed up instantly. Let's hope my churning day is over. Thanks again for the tip Wow. Thank you North W. I was rendering the video when I was doing super fetch.
It was going so slow because it was rendering while the hard drive was doing its stupid daily churning. As soo as I type in stop surper fetch and hit enter and got the mesaage that it was done. The hard drive speed up instantly.
Let’s hope my churning day is over.
Thanks again for the tip

]]> By: Adam http://createdigitalmusic.com/2007/04/05/how-to-kill-windows-vista-bottlenecks-pt-ii-stop-the-disk-churning/#comment-195951 Adam Fri, 15 Jun 2007 12:58:31 +0000 http://createdigitalmusic.com/2007/04/05/how-to-kill-windows-vista-bottlenecks-pt-ii-stop-the-disk-churning/#comment-195951 "You may need to check the Registry entry if you see a “Restore point creation disabled by Group Policy error in Control Panel" I tried googleing the for the reg entry but couldnt find it, do you know it? “You may need to check the Registry entry if you see a “Restore point creation disabled by Group Policy error in Control Panel”

I tried googleing the for the reg entry but couldnt find it, do you know it?

]]> By: north w. http://createdigitalmusic.com/2007/04/05/how-to-kill-windows-vista-bottlenecks-pt-ii-stop-the-disk-churning/#comment-173494 north w. Thu, 10 May 2007 11:55:50 +0000 http://createdigitalmusic.com/2007/04/05/how-to-kill-windows-vista-bottlenecks-pt-ii-stop-the-disk-churning/#comment-173494 hey guys, i currently do not have vista installed (i rolled out my xp cd and reinstalled), but, for those of you wanting to disable windows pre-fetch, i have a possible solution... i was reading this other site a couple of minutes ago("codinghorror", i believe it was called(i kinda forgot)) and stumbled upon a long list of comments from whitch i cut and pasted\printed for a friend a possible solution, whitch i have cut and pasted below <blockquote>> how u turn off superfetch? open up a command prompt, type 'net stop superfetch', and press enter. (you'll probably need admin privileges). > its not lettin me use my pc at all with music programs , it lags them It's probably not superfetch that's at fault (but disabling it could be a good experiment). I'd make an educated guess that it's a driver issue, but of course I can't be sure. good luck! brad on October 18, 2006 01:29 PM i tried but i got the message accesss denied and im the system admin? sablet on October 23, 2006 03:17 PM >i tried but i got the message accesss denied and im the system admin? when you open up the command prompt, open it by right clicking on the cmd.exe file, and select 'run as administrator' from the right click menu. You will have to go through the UAC dialog bs. after doing this, you'll have a cmd window which *actually* has system admin rights. Even though you are already the sys-admin, you still have to do this... Confused? you should be. In my opinion, The UAC dialogs, unlike superfetch, are worthy of some criticism. Even if they do technically make the system more secure. More info here: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000571.html brad on October 23, 2006 04:10 PM got it , thanks sablet on October 24, 2006 09:49 AM everythin runs faster now , only problem i found so far is when i start winwos, takes longer , something makes my computer think a lot after boot sablet on October 25, 2006 09:48 AM Hi Jeff, There is a way to disable superfetch in vista by setting the following registry key to a value of "0": HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters\EnableSuperfetch A value of 1 prefetches boot processes, 2 prefetches applications and 3 is for both. They should have given the option to turn this setting off in the computer management mmc but that works. Mario on October 26, 2006 02:46 PM mmm was guessin that it turned on by itself after boot</blockquote> i do not know if it works, so do not ask, but if you could try it and let me know the results that would be appreciated... send any results to wiebenor_3@yahoo.com.... hope this works and speeds up your computer, if not, well, i tried... see tou, north w. also, some of you more technical people may be able to figure out what might be wrong, as the person that tried this on the other website said that it didn't work hey guys,
i currently do not have vista installed (i rolled out my xp cd and reinstalled), but, for those of you wanting to disable windows pre-fetch, i have a possible solution… i was reading this other site a couple of minutes ago(”codinghorror”, i believe it was called(i kinda forgot)) and stumbled upon a long list of comments from whitch i cut and pasted\printed for a friend a possible solution, whitch i have cut and pasted below

> how u turn off superfetch?
open up a command prompt, type ‘net stop superfetch’, and press enter. (you’ll probably need admin privileges).
> its not lettin me use my pc at all with music programs , it lags them
It’s probably not superfetch that’s at fault (but disabling it could be a good experiment). I’d make an educated guess that it’s a driver issue, but of course I can’t be sure. good luck!
brad on October 18, 2006 01:29 PM
i tried but i got the message accesss denied and im the system admin?
sablet on October 23, 2006 03:17 PM
>i tried but i got the message accesss denied and im the system admin?
when you open up the command prompt, open it by right clicking on the cmd.exe file, and select ‘run as administrator’ from the right click menu. You will have to go through the UAC dialog bs.
after doing this, you’ll have a cmd window which *actually* has system admin rights. Even though you are already the sys-admin, you still have to do this… Confused? you should be. In my opinion, The UAC dialogs, unlike superfetch, are worthy of some criticism. Even if they do technically make the system more secure. More info here:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000571.html
brad on October 23, 2006 04:10 PM
got it , thanks
sablet on October 24, 2006 09:49 AM
everythin runs faster now , only problem i found so far is when i start winwos, takes longer , something makes my computer think a lot after boot
sablet on October 25, 2006 09:48 AM
Hi Jeff,
There is a way to disable superfetch in vista by setting the following registry key to a value of “0″:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters\EnableSuperfetch
A value of 1 prefetches boot processes, 2 prefetches applications and 3 is for both.
They should have given the option to turn this setting off in the computer management mmc but that works.
Mario on October 26, 2006 02:46 PM
mmm was guessin that it turned on by itself after boot

i do not know if it works, so do not ask, but if you could try it and let me know the results that would be appreciated…
send any results to wiebenor_3@yahoo.com…. hope this works and speeds up your computer, if not, well, i tried…
see tou,
north w.
also, some of you more technical people may be able to figure out what might be wrong, as the person that tried this on the other website said that it didn’t work

]]> By: Nicky Bentley http://createdigitalmusic.com/2007/04/05/how-to-kill-windows-vista-bottlenecks-pt-ii-stop-the-disk-churning/#comment-166300 Nicky Bentley Thu, 26 Apr 2007 06:28:29 +0000 http://createdigitalmusic.com/2007/04/05/how-to-kill-windows-vista-bottlenecks-pt-ii-stop-the-disk-churning/#comment-166300 I just gave my sister my old XP system. I don't think I want to spend more money on XP which MS will stop supporting the update patches some day. I only have Avast anti-virus that's it and I know for sure that it wasn't the anti-virus that was running in the background because I was actually disabling it completely to see if the disc will stop running. Sure enough the drive was still churning. I hope MS realize about this issue and come out with a patch soon. Let it run when the system is idle for more than 30 minutes or something not while you're using. I just gave my sister my old XP system. I don’t think I want to spend more money on XP which MS will stop supporting the update patches some day.
I only have Avast anti-virus that’s it and I know for sure that it wasn’t the anti-virus that was running in the background because I was actually disabling it completely to see if the disc will stop running. Sure enough the drive was still churning. I hope MS realize about this issue and come out with a patch soon. Let it run when the system is idle for more than 30 minutes or something not while you’re using.

]]> By: Peter Kirn http://createdigitalmusic.com/2007/04/05/how-to-kill-windows-vista-bottlenecks-pt-ii-stop-the-disk-churning/#comment-165977 Peter Kirn Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:59:54 +0000 http://createdigitalmusic.com/2007/04/05/how-to-kill-windows-vista-bottlenecks-pt-ii-stop-the-disk-churning/#comment-165977 Well, then there's "upgrading" to XP, which is what I finally wound up doing, even with these fixes. ;) You did look at restore points, though, right? Are you running any antivirus / antispyware software? Are any automatic updates for Windows running? Well, then there’s “upgrading” to XP, which is what I finally wound up doing, even with these fixes. ;)

You did look at restore points, though, right? Are you running any antivirus / antispyware software? Are any automatic updates for Windows running?

]]> By: Nicky Bentley http://createdigitalmusic.com/2007/04/05/how-to-kill-windows-vista-bottlenecks-pt-ii-stop-the-disk-churning/#comment-165976 Nicky Bentley Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:57:23 +0000 http://createdigitalmusic.com/2007/04/05/how-to-kill-windows-vista-bottlenecks-pt-ii-stop-the-disk-churning/#comment-165976 I'm running out of options. I follow the instruction above. Disable the windows search. I also went to C drive and unchecked indexing under properties and my hard drive is still churning like crazy. If it doesn't stop I will put Land O Lake out of business pretty soon. I’m running out of options. I follow the instruction above. Disable the windows search. I also went to C drive and unchecked indexing under properties and my hard drive is still churning like crazy. If it doesn’t stop I will put Land O Lake out of business pretty soon.

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