Quote Originally Posted by 'd0z3rr',index.php?page=Thread&postID=166049#post1 66049
PEBKAC.

The performance monitoring in Vista is ages better than the one in XP. It is very simple to tell what service is thrashing your disk. Manual setting of a service does not mean it's disabled, they can still start in manual under certain conditions. Perhaps you should have set the service to gee I don't know...DISABLED?

Then again you chose a dual-core over a quad-core for multiboxing, so this doesn't surprise me. Imma go get a rowboat for your river of tears....brb.

Well Senior System Admin, can't figure out how to use a brand new OS? 8)
And apparently you can't read. At all. Immediately after that I said I disabled the service (which by the way stopped nothing), and then rebooted, checked the service which was no longer running, and my HD was still going crazy anyway, for 20+ minutes before it stopped. Oh did I mention the performance monitor showed no disk activity? Better than XP? It looks almost the exact same and doesn't appear to show any information I couldn't get from XP (which was also worthless).

Second, I didn't choose a dual core processor for multiboxing, I've had this processor since long before I started playing more than 1 copy of WoW. Now you're just being an ass for absolutely no reason. The only reason I considered upgrading to another dual core processor is because it was $70 vs $170 for a quad core and I don't feel like throwing random quantities of money at a single video game.

Third, I'm a Sr. Unix/SAN System Admin (which by the way pays almost twice what windows system admins get paid) who happened to work with windows for many years but haven't since around the time Windows XP came out. Lame ass problems like this are the reasons I stopped caring about windows and stopped working with it, because Microsoft can't get their shit together enough to make an operating system worth managing.

Fourth, please don't post in my threads anymore, you're completely unhelpful and rude as hell to boot. Another reason to avoid windows and anyone who likes it.