@blakeyrat said:
@RaceProUK said:Cue jokes about Windows bloat in 3..2..1..
Not a joke, but I think the bloat issues are fixed in Vista and Windows 7. I had my Vista install for 3 years, and it never ran any slower from having lots of apps installed, or due to age-- not in the way XP's login screen would take longer and longer to come up the longer it had been installed. (It did run slower when system updates wiped the DLL cache, but that's temporary.)
Anyway, you're running Windows 7, I think you'll find bloat isn't an issue. Except perhaps psychologically.
I have to second this. Windows 7 is basically set it and forget it. On any decent modern system, nothing really needs to be done to the system to tweak performance, etc. Most old school tweaks that were good on XP are either not benificial at all or can screw performance in some cases.
When Vista first came out, my peers at my job were insistent on disabling superfetch so that there was more free RAM displayed in task manager. Stupid. They were also keen to disable indexing because they thought it slowed down the system. Stupid. It only runs when idle.
Typical benchmarks don't reflect real world usage. Measure how much time it takes for a user to search for a Word document from the search bar in the start menu and then open that document in Word. See if that real world process is faster with indexing and superfetch turned off rather than turned on.
/rant.