If it hasn't been said, there are 2 services that I know can slow a computer running Vista, no matter the power of the machine. The indexer is constantly running in the background as well as "Volume Shadow Copy." I only learned about these after researching why my hard drives were constantly active.
In my opinion, MS spent too much time re-creating software that used to be provided by third parties (defender, firewall, DVD maker, movie maker...blah de blah) rather than concentrating on their OS.
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If it hasn't been said, there are 2 services that I know can slow a computer running Vista, no matter the power of the machine. The indexer is constantly running in the background as well as "Volume Shadow Copy." I only learned about these after researching why my hard drives were constantly active. In my opinion, MS spent too much time re-creating software that used to be provided by third parties (defender, firewall, DVD maker, movie maker...blah de blah) rather than concentrating on their OS.