I was disappointed with Vista's built-in disk defragment tool.
I could tell the HD was spinning way too much for a supposed
state of defragmentation.
I tried to run Executive Software's Diskeeper 9 and 10 --

Is there an equiv of that in Beta 2?

I use the sidebar gadget that measures CPU usage and memory usage, with ease.
Very simple yet, so useful. Windows is running great, performance is close to
the day I installed it. ((Dave has always had luck with getting Microsoft
products to work good... I just have the touch)) ...

My video card has a fan that changes speed depending on the temp. of the
chipset.  I can easily hear it and in WinXP it would only increase speed
when I was playing a game like BF2.  In Vista, it seems to run fast all the
time or at least is constantly changing speeds.  I am ...

I'm running the 5384 Beta 2 on that machine:
XP 2600+ running at 2200 MGHZ
1,25 GB DDR 400 Ram's 2-3-3-6 1T
GeForce 5900 with 128 MB's

I have been noticing that for some reason the racagent.exe starts whenever it
wants and pegs my cpu out at about 100% and does not stop unless rebooting or
killing the instance in task manager. Has anyone else seen this problem or
know of a way to keep it from running ?

I can successfully run most of my programs using 'run as Administrator' the
only one that just does not fire up ( nor allow me to change it's startup in
proerties) is Explorer.exe
given the hassle with permissions I reckon the only way to be able to do

Let me start off by apologizing in advance for any spelling errors.  I have
been having trouble changing the time and date settings.  I get the error
"You do not have sufficent privelages to perform this operation" even when
I'm logged in as the adminstrator in safe mode.  I ...

Runs great, I have not even applied the patch yet. It has an XBOX 360 feel to
it.

are the visual settings on the 32-bit ver the same on the 64-bit ver. i have
the 32-bit ver. and my friend has the 64-bit ver. and he's able to see the
preview window on the task bar from an open window and he's able to choose
the transparency of his windows and the different ...

When I installed Vista Beta 2 few days ago, I had 512Mb of RAM. I first
thought that the Aero mode is activated, but since things like Flip 3D were
not available, I was probably using standard mode. Today I upguarded to 1GB
of RAM, and still Aero isn't turned on. So is there any ...

i am unable to enable transparent glass i activated my windows i rated my
computer it rated it 2. my computer configration is:-
amd athlon64 3400+ @2.4 ghz
1 gb ddr pc3200 ram

i was wondering, ive been running the new beta 2 build for a while now, and
it seems that every time i start it up, my ram usage ends up getting over
600+ after the computer finishes booting.  i have 1 gig of ram on my system,
and it is a bit inconvenient because if i try to run ...

When I click on defrag nothing happens. Is there are service I might have
disabled?

Could someone let me know where this is now?  I used to find it in the
Control Panel; is it under another folder perhaps?  TIA for your help
always!   katy