Setting up a Windows box

Posted By: Bass | Oct 2nd @ 11:05 AM
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#Oct 3rd @ 1:22 PM
Bass
Bass
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It only really happens when Vista boots for about 5 minutes. I think it's just HDD activity. I've heard it before on other computers.

#Oct 4th @ 1:59 AM
giovanni
giovanni
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I think I might know what you are looking for: I have been searching for something simmilar whan I used to work a lot on Unix and wanted a similar experience on my Windows machine: http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/.

 

Since then, however, microsoft came out with Power Shell 2.0 which comes with a very interesting enviroment: graphical Powershell. However, I haven't been playing with it since I don't do any scripting anymore and I don't even know if the thing can be used for anything outside of Power Shell.

 

Edit: I fogto there was also cmdplus.

Edit2: This seems very interesting, but I don't know how usable it is right now: http://poshconsole.codeplex.com/

#Oct 4th @ 2:00 AM
giovanni
giovanni
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It is not normal that it takes you 5 mins to boot vista, are you sure you have updated drivers?

#Oct 4th @ 2:23 AM
LeoDavidson
LeoDavidson

Try using Process Monitor to see what's being accessed by what. That might reveal why the HDD is accessing.

 

It's probably something like SuperFetch loading stuff it thinks  you might use into memory, or a defrag, Windows Defender scan or something like that.

 

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