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    Windows 7 Windows 7 Superfetch

    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...
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    Windows 7 Excessive processor usage

    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...
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    Windows 7 W7 x-64 build 7048 - Cannot complete Windows assesment) Otherwise good

    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...
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    Windows Vista Understanding Superfetch Errors and Windows Aero Issues

    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...
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    Windows Vista Explorer.exe using excessive resources?

    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...