I notice the slow down tho.

with it off my HD activity is low, only active when im opening files etc. if im just reading though a webpage or watching something then there is only the odd flash here and there for the HDD activity light.

With system restore on my HDD activity goes insane and the activity light is on solid all the time and this slows things down a fair bit when i go to open a game or movie

I cannot see this being the case to be honest, apart from maybe the first few days after installing Windows. If this is the case you have done something to make it go screwy.

ive done something?

yeah i did..

both my pc and laptop are fine untill i turn on SR then HDD goes nuts.

Turn it off and it stops.

This is on a fresh install and on an older install like on my pc at the moment

That is because you have just enabled it and it is busy preparing it's initial shadow copies and other things. If you give it a day or so it will go away...

When windows seven came out i gave it a whole [censored] month and still it was chewing about at my HDD so i fooked it off and have never looked back

Sorry not convinced, never seen such issues with system restore. XP on borked systems, yes, Vista and above, no.

Not running any 3rd party defraggers are you which may be causing purge shadow copies? Or otherwise anything which interfers with the OS?

Edited by Pipexer (Tue 18-Oct-11 16:37:48)

defragger is all i use..

And tbh i dont give a flying carp if your "not convinced" i know what it dose to my pc and that is all that matters.

If it works fine for you then congrats but at the end of the day i dont need SR

In reply to a post by Seansmit17:

So i thouht id try it but i dont like it so i uninstalled it

BUT

its not 100% gone.

If i press the windows key on my keyboard the classic shell start menu shows up but the normal windows seven start menu shows up ifi click on it.

How can i stop this?

reinstall it, set everything back to windows defaults, then uninstall it.

Personally I love the app tho, I also used it to make IE9 better as well, with the status bar etc.

Thanks

I managed to get it off in the end