superfetch

Hello, i installed windows 7 and i have very often hdd activity when there is not a single program running. I have allready disabled several services (including superfetch) but the system still is accessing my hdd all the time. I am using Windows 7 Ultimate 64 (fresh install). What can i do to...

I have used Windows Server 2008 for a long time and I should say it is a very fast and reliable operating system. Server 2008 has many features disabled by default, which allows it to have better memory management and run faster than Vista. You can enable a number of features if you need them...

With regard to Win7 setup for an SSD. How to check the status of Superfetch/ReadyBoost/ Prefetch? I see in properties of my 2 SSDs under "policies" tab a setup for "Write -caching policy". Is this relevant?

Superfetch does not seem to be loading commonly used programs & system files into memory at startup the same way Vista does. Isn't Windows 7 supposed to be faster? I have a high end PC and after running the release candidate on here for the past week I have noticed that Vista actually ran...

Superfetch does not seem to be loading commonly used programs & system files into memory at startup the same way Vista does. Isn't Windows 7 supposed to be faster? I have a high end PC and after running the release candidate on here for the past week I have noticed that Vista actually ran...

Since a few days, I've notices the one of my cores is running at near 100% usage all the time (build 7068 on Thinkpad T61p). Seems to be the SearchFilterHost.exe, it uses in average 45% of processor power, according to the resource monitor. Normal? Any suggestions? Just wrote in another tread...

Hi guys I seem to get an error "Cannot Complete Windows assesment when running this on build 7048. gets as far as Running the Direct3D 10 ALU assessment -- then takes a LONG time (> 5 mins approx hard disk light going bonkers) evntually you get a few more tests and then it fails at Windows...

What is Superfetch?? Quite often i get a message popping up saying this has stopped working and often get a message about something to do with Host Service has stopped working. What do these mean exatly as it is rather annoying. I have noticed that when one of these messages has popped up...

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...