New Build: XP or Vista

[4zm4r3d02]

For me, the most frustrating and annoying thing about Vista is that, every so often "something" slows my pc down horribly. The mouse pointer moves just fine, but clicks don't take effect for a while, and windows and apps take a minute or more to open. However, taskmanager (when it finally opens) shows cpu usage is only in the 15% to 20% range!

I don't think it's malware, as I've run a number of scans using different bootable anti-virus discs. Plus, this behavior started the first day I got my pc, before I ever installed anything on it.

I've shut off indexing, and superfetch, and the frequency at which the slowdowns occur has reduced, but they still happen. Also, rebooting the pc doesn't help; whatever is slowing the machine just seems to start back up, and makes the boot time go as high as 10 minutes, as listed in the event log.

I've read posts to usenet groups by other people who have the same trouble, but have not found any solution that works for me. I just have to wait it out when it happens, and cross my fingers and hope that it doesn't do it when I'm trying to do something important.

[kayphoonstar]

FWIW, I've had the firewire channel changer working in Vista just fine. They've been updated.

Also, the KxAudio drivers for the older Sound Blasters work pretty well. I think without those two drivers, I wouldn't have even bothered trying to maintain a Vista install.

Creative dropping support for SB Live and ATI leaving All-In-Wonders w/o support was pretty frustrating.

It seems like it took about a year for the HP wireless printer drivers to show up.