I suspect that the DisablePagingExecutive may be one factor in your results being better.

I think a machine that has stabilised with all the prefetch activity finished should perform pretty much the same regardless of the prefetch tunings. What the tunings should do is avoid the tendancy to get into an overutilised state when you close a large application. That is the thing that I thought was marginalising the experience.

-Andy

I just tried this and did find one thing right off the bat. My computer goes into Sleep a lot faster than it did before. More like when I first got it.

Jep disabling the SuperFetch and the Paging does seem to speed things up a great bit.

ReadyBoost however is still terrible for performance, so I've disabled it all together ...

Thanks for the info folks.. could I ask anyone that tries this and wants to comment what their UMPC is, if they were using a ReadyBoost device and what memory is fitted to the machine?

It may be with a small memory device that the prefetch isn't as active and it is more suitable. I would kinda like to get some stats.

-Andy

I created a  VBS Script to apply this hack.

Thankyou for the hack. makes life that bit-easier! I've applied this patch and its true, although not a vast speed increase, everything does seem that bit snappier on my T700! Good Work!

The i7210 owners have been suffering because with Vista their units do not go off,  standby or Hibernation. Well, I got a report saying thatthese issues disappeared after the application of this hack.

Ive applied this to the Medion and while i cant report any speed improvements, it appears to have stopped the disk thrashing. Thanks for the tip! With indexing, defender and phishing filter off its now starting to act like a normal umpc! im even getting used to the thumbpad. keyboard is still horrible though!

Hi Andy,

Thanks for the tip. I haven't applied the registry change, I've just set the SuperFetch and ReadyBoost services to manual. Vista on my R2H 1.2 GB feels more responsive and the CPU doesn't seem to go anymore at 100% for longer periods. This may be obvious since SuperFetch was responsable with pre-loading applications in memory, but now there's consitently free memory in Task Manager - this may be good news for people thinking that Vista is a memory hog, well there was a reason behind that.

I believe Vista should perform some tests at setup time and look at things like CPU, memory and disk throughoput to decide whether SuperFetch should be enabled or not.

- Dan