2 questions...

1) I recently installed Vista because I was getting bored having such a easy and reliable XP, and have everything setup pretty good now. The only problem is my hard-drive seems to be overly active at idle. Keeps clicking and rearranging. I turned off scheduled defrag and can't get it to stop. Ideas?

2) How come every time I boot the screen brightness is always at its highest setting? XP remembered my setting at shut-down but Vista seems to reset it. I prefer it at the 3-4 lowest.

Any insight greatly appreciated.

Thx

 

You will have to change the screen brightness setting in the power options(power profile) menu in control panel. Vista defaults to max brightness on A/C and around half while on battery.

 

For the first week or so with Vista, the hard drive does a lot of cacheing and other normal things to optimize Vista. Vista will also defrag, and scan for spyware on a schedule, which might also have been what you're noticing. When you first boot Vista, there also is high HDD activity because Vista will use it's superfetch to load things into memory that you use often. This is all normal, and will decrease the more you use Vista and it "learns" your habits.

 

Nice, thank you! Rep!!!

 

If it doesn't stop (it didn't for me, I had stuttering every once in a while), try turning off indexing and superfetch.

 

Yea it's doing it's housekeeping routine and will eventually stop once it's settled and knows where everything are.. indexing, superfetching.