Btw, Mickey, not all of us can or want to leave our PCs on all the time. So, that’s not necessarily a viable solution. It’s clear, however, that most of these apps expect the PC to be on overnight. Most of them seem to be configured out of the box to do their thing between midnight and 6 am.

I can’t comment on Vista in this regard. My main PC is the Vista laptop, so it gets used regularly. However, it has always bothered me that every program seems to want to do all sorts of “stuff” when you first start up the PC. It is exceedingly frustrating not being able to do anything for 5 or 10 minutes because some utility or other is using up 100% of the CPU. While not the only culprit, Windows Defender is certainly one of the major culprits. Then, there’s anti-virus that wants to update and scan immediately. And, that old svchost.exe process consistently hogs major amounts of CPU. I don’t know if it’s Windows Defender, Windows Update, or some other Windows application searching for updates, but the PC is basically unusable while that’s happening.

I’m with Nikooo. There should be an easy, straightforward way to disable *all* of this so everything isn’t competing for CPU time at the same time (something easier than trying to configure each application separately or using Task Manager to kill the offending processes — and hope you don’t kill something that causes your PC to barf when you kill it). None of these things seem to be “intelligent” enough to do this on their own.

How is Vista these days on your Fujitsu P1610? Are you back to XP?

That’s my latest dream device and I loathe the OS options. Not much I can do on a mini tablet about that.

Thank god these new MIDs are highlighting linux options.

I’ve been following this Vista Mobile theme for a while. I must be one of the lucky ones. I bought a Motion M1400 off of ebay with Vista Ultimate loaded. 1.1 ghz Pentium Processor and 1 gig of ram. It ran great until I loaded Zone Alarm on it. I upped the ram to 2 gigs and it works like a charm with Zone Alarm running. It takes a long time to boot, so I just put it in sleep mode when not in use. It’s on and ready to go in 10 to 12 seconds.

So far, Vista on a mobile mobile device is working for me.

Now, if I could just save up enough for one of those Raon Everuns…

I’ve been following this Vista Mobile theme for a while. I must be one of the lucky ones. I bought a Motion M1400 off of ebay with Vista Ultimate loaded. 1.1 ghz Pentium Processor and 1 gig of ram. It ran great until I loaded Zone Alarm on it. I upped the ram to 2 gigs and it works like a charm with Zone Alarm running. It takes a long time to boot, so I just put it in sleep mode when not in use. It’s on and ready to go in 10 to 12 seconds.

So far, Vista on a mobile mobile device is working for me.

Now, if I could just save up enough for one of those Raon Everuns…

I’ve been following this Vista Mobile theme for a while. I must be one of the lucky ones. I bought a Motion M1400 off of ebay with Vista Ultimate loaded. 1.1 ghz Pentium Processor and 1 gig of ram. It ran great until I loaded Zone Alarm on it. I upped the ram to 2 gigs and it works like a charm with Zone Alarm running. It takes a long time to boot, so I just put it in sleep mode when not in use. It’s on and ready to go in 10 to 12 seconds.

So far, Vista on a mobile mobile device is working for me.

Now, if I could just save up enough for one of those Raon Everuns…

there should be no difference leaving it off for an hour or a week. once you turn a PC off it is OFF, no files get defragmented, no files get moved, no file contents have changed… so on & so on.

Windows Defender is the worst culprit in my opinion. For some reason it panics if your PC hasn’t been used in a few days and nags you until you run a scan of your entire harddrive. Surely it should know that the PC hasn’t been turned on at all which should mean that there’s no chance of anything “bad” having happened since last time a scan was run.

Do you think this issue should/could be “fixed” by software update? A simple comand stating “do not use more than X% of the processing power” or “do not start cleaning immdiately upon waking up” should do the trick.

I leave the computer on overnight with the display off, and all the housekeeping takes place then.