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>>I don't see this at all. The cpu is idle, 0-3% as under XP. You could have tried switching off the auto indexing which I did under XP as well btw.
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>>This laptop came preinstalled with it and has a 2Ghz cpu with 2Gb ram and it runs very slick. No cpu usage to speak off, no disk activiity. Vista does use +/-1Gb of the ram though.
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>>The Vista "experience" rating on this machine is 4.1. This number is the Vista way of telling you how good your machine is for running this hog :)
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>I'm also comparing apples to apples - the behavior somewhere around the middle of the first day, before anything was adjusted, i.e. it was pretty much just unwrapped and run.
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>I'm well aware of Microsoft being the master of wrong defaults, and that pretty much everything needs to be set to proper values before it becomes usable.

Well actually this laptop ran like this from time of delivery, without tweaking iow. It just runs without cpu or disk activity if its idle. I think it might be (a) that it was a clean install, and (b) that the equipment is sufficient for the Vista, enough memory, fast enough cpu, etc. The indexing service I switched off only today because we just don't need that.