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Vista made my HP HDX-18 laptop (quad-core, 4GB, 1TB) virtually unusable.
It came to unstoppable disk abuse, making, for instance, impossible to
connect any large external hard drive. The Performance monitor shows
that system is all the time busy with writing to files in the "System
Volume Information" folder. Switching off the "system restore" helps:
"Start menu" - Right click on "Computer" - Properties - Advanced
Settings - System Protection ... Uncheck all boxes.

I'm wondering with the following: Toyota recall cars and patches them
for free if any production defect is discovered. Vista is mainly made of
defects, but I have to pay for an upgrade to "7".


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So how have you diagnosed that it is a Vista problem and not a hardware
problem or caused by other software?

Camper.

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Vista made my HP HDX-18 laptop (quad-core, 4GB, 1TB) virtually unusable.
It came to unstoppable disk abuse, making, for instance, impossible to
connect any large external hard drive. The Performance monitor shows
that system is all the time busy with writing to files in the "System
Volume Information" folder. Switching off the "system restore" helps:
"Start menu" - Right click on "Computer" - Properties - Advanced
Settings - System Protection ... Uncheck all boxes.

I'm wondering with the following: Toyota recall cars and patches them
for free if any production defect is discovered. Vista is mainly made of
defects, but I have to pay for an upgrade to "7".


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So how have you diagnosed that it is a Vista problem and not a hardware
problem or caused by other software?

Camper.

As I said, in the "Performance monitor" I see the "System" continuously
writing to the "System Volume Information" (sub)folder with a long name
{****-****...} typical for system restore points folders. BTW, also
"System" is intensively using the swap although only about half of
memory is in use.

Unfortunately it may be not the only reason for the problem, because
switching off the "System restore" helped only partially, i.e.: crazy
disk activity finally is coming to almost zero after few seconds of the
system in idle state, but it is still impossible to copy a large
directory (several GB, thousands of small files) on an external USB hard
drive. First the transfer rate is gradually decreasing to ~1MB/s, then
the "copy files" window stops responding. However if in the case with
the "System Restore" ON the very final state is completely dead system
(Alt+Ctrl+Del leads to the black screen with mouse "please wait" cursor
on it), with the "System Resore" in OFF it is possible to get after
Alt+Ctrl+Del the Task Manager and to kill the hung "copy files" window
(actually, to kill and restart the File Explorer).

P.S. I tried 2 different types of the 1TB USB drives, the picture is
the same
P.P.S. Additional observation: it seems 1 core gets loaded completely
while other 3 are almost idle


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As I said, in the "Performance monitor" I see the "System" continuously
writing to the "System Volume Information" (sub)folder with a long name
{****-****...} typical for system restore points folders. BTW, also
"System" is intensively using the swap although only about half of
memory is in use.
ETC.................

Your message about intense disk activity in Vista is dead on, but I doubt
there's anything you can do about it. My Vista system works the hard drive
much of the time, and I've got indexing turned off, no anti-virus scanning
(except Defender), and no Norton crap installed. It's a mystery!

My new Windows 7 system is much more kind to its hard drive. Vista is just
Vista, and there's probably nothing you can do to it to behave like XP, for
example. Yours is a common problem, and everyone with Vista experiences
it -- they just don't realize it!

EW

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As I said, in the "Performance monitor" I see the "System" continuously
writing to the "System Volume Information" (sub)folder with a long name
{****-****...} typical for system restore points folders. BTW, also
"System" is intensively using the swap although only about half of
memory is in use.
ETC.................

Your message about intense disk activity in Vista is dead on, but I doubt
there's anything you can do about it. My Vista system works the hard drive
much of the time, and I've got indexing turned off, no anti-virus scanning
(except Defender), and no Norton crap installed. It's a mystery!

My new Windows 7 system is much more kind to its hard drive. Vista is just
Vista, and there's probably nothing you can do to it to behave like XP, for
example. Yours is a common problem, and everyone with Vista experiences
it -- they just don't realize it!

EW

Reformulating your message in an instructive way: stay with XP as long
as it is sufficient for your needs, Vista has no functional
improvements compare to XP. Did you mean that?

Then I agree, Vista a the crappiest product of Microsoft. No one OS
except Vista is capable to freeze a top-end machine with no external (to
the OS components) applications running.


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I know this is Vista forum but I find it fascinating that I stumbled
onto this thread researching the same exact problem in WINDOWS 7.
What a bumma. Its driving me crazy. I just bought this brand new new
high horsepower, fancy shmancy desktop with latest and greatest WIN7
hoping it would last 10 years like my last computer, and now it seems
doomed to an early demise.

My troubleshooting experiments are identical to this thread. Why
should we have to know or care about such complicated services and have
to decide if necessary or not. Turning off System Restore (yes, I did
it, and yes it helped) and other Windows "features" should not be
necessary to "save" our computers. I want the features and I want the
disk to last too. And I just want to "drive the car" so to speak. I
don't want to rebuild the engine first.

I'm really thinking mac next time...


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