“TheDub” keeps coming up with suggestions for making Vista snappier. Far be it from me to keep his findings a secret.

I thought I would mention another thing. You will not believe me when I tell you that I have gotten Windows Vista performance similar if not the same or faster than Windows XP. Both on battery and off.

What are your thoughts on “Superfetch” technology because along with Desktop Search this was the other performance hitter. Upon disabling this service… Vista is MUCH faster when I shut the lid. Vista is sleeping within a second or two, compared to when Superfetch and Desktop Search were enabled.

Is this another one of those ‘Whoa’ not ‘Wow’ features in Vista? I know its supposed to improve system performance by tracking your usage habits and pre-loading stuff into memory that it thinks you are going to use. Well, aside from Firefox and Thunderbird, I rarely do the same thing every day at the same time – so it was really a “bog down” for me. My physical memory free in the device manager on windows boot is now 600mb out of 2gb… but it also says that 800mb is cached. Before when Superfetch was on,.free physical memory free was 6-10mb and like 1.5gb was cached…

I have no idea whether Superfetch is helping on systems with fast HDs, but laptop HDs are not normally super fast. Disabling Superfetch.. man, it helped a lot… i mean a lot… its as fast (or faster) than XP was on this same laptop now… I’m happy! The only thing that is slow as far as Vista performance for me now is file copying / moving and deleting… I pray to the Microsoft gods nightly hoping that they will fix this issue…