| Process | Occurs When? |
| Superfetch/Readyboost | Readyboost device inserted, first run, when Vista analyses that you use particular programs/data regularly. |
| Indexing service/Windows Search | Assumed after every new file write/delete - reindexing for greater index performance occurs randomly (well, when the index needs cleaning up). |
| Windows Defender | Periodically in the background, automated scheduled scans. |
| System Restore | When a new driver or piece of software is installed. |
If you have Vista on a laptop and use Readyboost (via built in card reader or similar which I do), I'd recommend leaving Superfetch/Readyboost enabled, and System Restore for obvious reasons. I've disabled Windows Search via the services (because of heavy disk/battery usage) and Windows Defender as I'll enable and use this manually when I need it (I don't need it bugging me every 3 days/running whilst I work).
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My Vista hard drive thrashes for days, apparently because of Windows Indexer. The "Help" files say it's not optional, because it speeds up searches.
But I don't do searches on my local PC, and this service prematurely ages the hard drive, and slows my work.
There needs to be a way to turn it off. Stopping the service is not effective because the indexer comes back to life after a few seconds.
It's all wasted cycles and unecessary disk usage.
My machine did the same. I stopped indexing and superfetch. Still churned away by itself. Finally I defragmented the hard drive and problem solved. No noise at all. I restarted indexing and susperfetch and still no noise. In the past when I tried to defragment the machine would report the performance was GOOD and defragmentation was not necessary. It was wrong. It did need it.
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