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After I restart, or turn off-turn on my pc and go start -> all programs, win7 seems to hang for 7-10 seconds sometimes, then the list appears. After that first "load" of the programs list, it opens normally. I have indexed the start menu, as well as the rest of my drive. Any ideas about what...

So in addition to switching my machines over to Windows 7, I recently added a NAS, so most of my stuff is now on my network. Which sometimes makes it hard to find things, but indexing network resources isn't supported under the indexer so...any suggestions for something that does work for that...

ok so my problem is that windows 7 has recently started hanging each time i try to open a folder and it shows me the little wait circle, it only lasts for about a second or so but it is highly annoying because it only started to do it about a week ago if anyone else has run into this problem...

why can't I choose which floders I want Media Player to monitor? All of my Media files are on my NAS. I can access the share and open individual files, but Windows wont index the NAS?!?:confused:

One of the many reasons I skipped Vista was because of the constant Disk activity when idle. It appears that the same problem exists with Windows 7. I've tried the usual suspects like turning of indexing etc, but the problem it still exists. I'm 99% sure it's not the hardware, because I can play...

in vista, i was able to type a key phrase i knew existed in a document somewhere in the folder, and search would find that document. now when i search, it only seems to find documents named something. if i turn on "Always search file names and contents", it still does not find the documents...

I installed Windows beta on my F drive. For some reason the following folders are unaccessible: F:/Documents and Settings/BillD/Application Date/Local Settings/Cookies/ My Documents/Recent/Start Menue and a few others. The pop up box says that the folder is not accessible and that access is...

I've had this computer since december, and have only ever had Vista on it. I got a new hard drive thats about a month old. Its been working fine as my storage, but when I try to use the search feature, no files show up. I'm computer literate, and know I am searching correctly. I also check to...

10 Speed Tweaks that can make a huge difference in Vista performance 1. Turn off Windows Search Indexing Windows Vista search indexing is constantly reviewing files on your system to make their contents available for quick searching. This is handy, but can severely impact system performance...

Vista RC1 5600 P4 2.8C (@3.43GHz) 1GB DDR memory First of all, I know Vista doesnt take lightly on the amount of resource usage, but the way explorer.exe uses resources has shown up oddly, and I was wondering if anyone has pin-pointed it to a certain task or service yet that could be...

Hi all, I just thought i might put up a post with some performance tweaks to get some more grunt from your vista RC1 OS. Overall I was able to get my a considerable perfomance increase and now vista runs as quick or quicker than XP and is just as stable (or as stable as one could expect from...