Ever come back from lunch and find that your computer is running really slow after you log back in? The reason for this is that a number of processes that were waiting for your machine to be idle have probably kicked off and have loaded into memory causing the currently loaded applications to page to disk. Then when you get back to your machine it has to access these off the disk again and put them back in memory causing the machine to feel sluggish.
In his talk today at TechEd entitled Windows Vista System Performance Enhancement Matt Ayers offered insight into this and other common problems that cause performance problems in today’s system and what Superfetch, ReadyBoost, and Readydrive are going to do to help alleviate many of these pain point in Windows Vista.
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