Boot Cycle Reduced

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BillS22

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Earlier I had complained that my new Vista 64 Ultimate took 7 to 10 minutes to fully book. At least 7 to 10 minutes for my HD light to stop flickering.

I found a way to reduce the HD activity to what I consider normal.

1. Removed my ReadyBoost Drive - I have 8GB of ram, so I removed my Readyboost Thumb Drive.

2. Customer Swap File - I set my Swap File to a stadic 12186 min 12186 max (the amount recommended by Windows)

These two changes really reduced the HD activity upon boot.

Also, one of my 32bit applications used to report a low-disk-space error every time I opened it. That went away too. I think ReadyBoost confused that app.

Bill
 

My Computer

System One

Readyboost really only benefits low RAM machines. (512mb / 1GB)

It sounds like the pagefile was needlessly swapping data between the HD and the cached file on the readyboost drive. If you looked at the resource monitor, you'd probably have noticed a lot of 'hard faults' in the memory field and a lot of read/write activity from readyboost and C:\pagefile.sys in the Disk field.

Good to hear you've limited the activity.
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Self Built
    CPU
    i7 3770K HT ON 4.7GHz
    Motherboard
    P8Z68 Deluxe Gen 3
    Memory
    8GB G.Skill Ripjaws X 2133mhz
    Graphics card(s)
    2x Gigabyte GTX 670 OC WindForce SLI
    Sound Card
    X-FI Forte + ATH-AD900
    Monitor(s) Displays
    x2 Dell U2410 / 58" Samsung / "40 Sony
    Screen Resolution
    1920*1200 / 1920x1080
    Hard Drives
    2x Intel 520 240GB * Crucial M4 128GB * 2x Samsung F3 1TB (RAID 0) * 2x WD Caviar Blacks 2TB (RAID 0)
    PSU
    Corsair AX1200W
    Case
    Lian Li PC-V1020A
    Cooling
    NH-D14: 3x140mm Gelid Wing 14: Sunbeam Rheobus Extreme
    Mouse
    Razer Imperator + Thermaltake Theron
    Keyboard
    Topre Realforce // Ducky Shine Cherry MX Black
    Other Info
    Laptop Specs: Clevo Sager P170HM // 17.3 Matte 1920x1200 // i7 2720QM // 8GB 1333mhz // Dedicated GTX 485M // 240GB Intel 520 + 750GB + Blu-Ray // Samsung Story 2TB USB 3.0
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