Finally I decided to move from Windows XP SP3 to Windows Vista 64-bit, mostly due to fact that I’ve got 8GB of memory, and XP only sees 3.2 of them! Now, I had to chose 64-bit Vista to achieve this, which leaded me to another pitfall which I shall discuss another time.

What I’m speaking now is that I immediately noticed one major difference in OS behaviour - Vista is using my hard disk drive almost all the time. I assume its doing some indexing or defragmenting, or some optimization, but it’s really annoying! I had to stop it.

Here are the Windows services which I stoped and put in Manual startup mode:

  • Windows Defender*
  • Tablet PC Input Service
  • Superfetch
  • ReadyBoost
  • Application Experience

After doing that my Vista installation behaves as a regular XP one - my hard disk stays cool and quite. A side note: I have disabled Windows Defender from its Options settings before stopping it, and I’m doing so because I have better antivirus and anti-spyware solution installed.

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