The Permanent Connection From Windows Vista To Microsoft

[Guest Reimar]

Stop the Windows Vista Features and Services Harvesting User Data for Microsoft

I found this articel on Softpedia and was thinking that for many members with limited computer knowledge this article may answer some or a lot of questions.

The article will final in 2 parts and the link above is to the published part 1.

Windows Vista Users may realize that the computers hard disk is working at 70-80% of the time. Even if you didn't touch the computer for hours, the hard disk is accessed most of the time.

I installed a new clean Vista without any programs and the hard disk is working! For what. May the above mentioned article will give the answer!

Edited August 20, 2007 by Reimar

[Thanh-BKK]

Hello

Without reading that article, i guess it's the usual BS about how "big bad Microsoft is spying on you by reading all your e-mails, watching all your porn clips and deciding which virus to upload next so they can support the anti-virus software industry".

Want to stop the constant hard drive access..??

Open "My Computer"

Right-click your hard drive (repeat these steps for every hard drive/partition shown).

Click "Properties"

UNCHECK both "Compress this drive to save disk space" and "Index this drive for faster searching"

Click "OK"

Done.

And to verify that i'm right: Before following my advise, unplug your internet, make sure your computer is absolutely in no way connected to anything, and keep it running for a while. And you'll see that the hard drive thrashing is still there even tough big bad Microsoft can hardly spy on you without being connected

The follow my advise and see - no more disk thrashing.

Best regards.....

Thanh

PS yeah, i am actually using Vista since quite a while, and instead of listening to rumours and BS i go for facts and test solution, recommending only what really works.

[hansonjb]

i turned off indexing and no change.

still, constant disk thrashing.

this is a vista problem.

Hello

Without reading that article, i guess it's the usual BS about how "big bad Microsoft is spying on you by reading all your e-mails, watching all your porn clips and deciding which virus to upload next so they can support the anti-virus software industry".

Want to stop the constant hard drive access..??

Open "My Computer"

Right-click your hard drive (repeat these steps for every hard drive/partition shown).

Click "Properties"

UNCHECK both "Compress this drive to save disk space" and "Index this drive for faster searching"

Click "OK"

Done.

And to verify that i'm right: Before following my advise, unplug your internet, make sure your computer is absolutely in no way connected to anything, and keep it running for a while. And you'll see that the hard drive thrashing is still there even tough big bad Microsoft can hardly spy on you without being connected

The follow my advise and see - no more disk thrashing.

Best regards.....

Thanh

PS yeah, i am actually using Vista since quite a while, and instead of listening to rumours and BS i go for facts and test solution, recommending only what really works.

[cdnvic]

Its more of a feature than a problem actually. Vista is much more proactive at keeping the drive organized than any previous versions. While XP will get terribly fragmented over time, Vista is constantly organizing the drive, which is one of the reasons it runs so much smoother than XP.

If you've ever run Diskeeper, you'd see similar action.

You can now put the paranoia back in the box

[nikster]

Its more of a feature than a problem actually.

Will it do that on laptops too? If so, it's a bug.

Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence

[kayo]

screw it. Stick with XP for another two-five years.

[calibanjr.]

Its more of a feature than a problem actually. Vista is much more proactive at keeping the drive organized than any previous versions. While XP will get terribly fragmented over time, Vista is constantly organizing the drive, which is one of the reasons it runs so much smoother than XP.

If you've ever run Diskeeper, you'd see similar action.

You can now put the paranoia back in the box

If that's the case, then wouldn't it be less stressful on the drive just to run as usual and defrag (using Diskeeper, not Windows defragger, of course) your drives once a week or month? Guess it depends on the user. I'm monthly defrag guy, weekly backup.

[cdnvic]

Diskeeper is always puttering around, moving stuff about.

[raslin]

This is all a big incentive not to contribute to global warming by using Vista.

I will stick to my plan and upgrade to 2000 next year.

[cdnvic]

This is all a big incentive not to contribute to global warming by using Vista.

I will stick to my plan and upgrade to 2000 next year.

So right now you are using 98 which has serious unpatched security issues?

Edited September 8, 2007 by cdnvic

[peter991]

And I thought I was using the latest technology when I installed CP/M ...

Peter

[wpcoe]

Diskeeper is always puttering around, moving stuff about.

I don't want to stray too far from the thread topic, but since you mentioned Diskeeper a couple times: I just finished a 45-day free trial of Diskeeper, and yes, it does a good job of defragging "on the fly" ... I'm not sure if it defrags after the file has been written to the disk as a fragemented one, or if Diskeeper intercepts the writing process so it is written in contiguous clusters the first time, but...

One of my beefs with all the defraggers out there is they don't "compact" a disk any more. The old defraggers used to move files to eliminate space between files which can pre-empt fragmented files in the first place. Why don't they? It seems a bit counterproductive to defrag all the files and leave spaces between them so that the next time a new file is written it is almost guaranteed to be fragmented. Yes, I'm anal-retentive. I want my defragger to be, also.

[stumonster]

This is all a big incentive not to contribute to global warming by using Vista.

I will stick to my plan and upgrade to 2000 next year.

So right now you are using 98 which has serious unpatched security issues?

winME you insensitive clod

though my luddite vote is to use XPpro for a while longer

[cdnvic]

Me has the same issues

So much for the permanent link to Microsoft. I've been watching outbound traffic all evening and only saw one brief connection.

[Kf6vci]

Ever used a good firewall like Sybase? Even before you start the IE or other browser, the Win OS would report to the mother ship. And it is common knowledge that VISA is doing more of this kind of thing than XP. ** In the past, I noticed that when I deleted and emptied tha paper basket, actually m o r e HDD space would be used than before. Henceforth, you can bet that the stuff wasn't really deleted. ** Ther German interior ministry is dead keen on using some Federal trojans to search citizens' computers. A lot of other services simply have been doing that anyhow. ** MSFT would go broke it it was paying staff to sift threw people's garbage on hard drives. But there are other interested parties out there.

[cdnvic]

Pure paranoia. In most cases there are laws to protect you from snooping.

Your computer always checks for updates when firing up.

[Thanh-BKK]

Hi

If there's disk thrashing going on, that could also be an anti-virus scanner or similar program? Because on mine Vista machine there is NO disk activity whatsoever if i just keep the machine idle...... after i disabled the indexing, that is.

As soon as i connect to the internet (in case if i boot the machine but keep the router off) there is network traffic - a million gizmos go looking for updates, which may be Vista itself, Real Player, Avast anti-virus, Adobe professional, etc etc etc.... almost every program that can be legally downloaded has some option to check for updates automatically, and they all run a service named "Net detect" or similar, which has them do the update search as soon as there is a connection to the internet. Other software does that as soon as you start it - Musicmatch Jukebox, EasyX video converter, SUPER video converter, Firefox and it's gazillion add-ons etc etc etc.

There's plenty of network traffic completely unrelated to Microsoft and still completely legit even if you don't open a single website.

And all this "Redmond knows your password" crap is just that - crap.

Best regards....

Thanh