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run a full scan and see what you get. during scan mine goes to about 140 per second. just idling it only shows 5-10

on vista you can click a section, like memory disk cpu...and it will show you what its doing. like it says mwaRE.EXE 6500 HARD FAULTS per minute...and then a list of all the other stuff etc etc. from what ive researched its just windows jacked up programming that causes it. technically with 6 gigs of ram you should very rarely need a paging file, but windows doesnt see it that way. maybe they are trying to save power or something by not keeping it in the ram

2 minutes, but it takes longer to load the grub than it does windows. from the time i select windows os, it only takes 30 seconds to long on screen. perfmon tells you line by line everything going on in the pc.........from windows... Note A hard fault (also known as a page fault) occurs when the page of the referenced address is no longer in physical memory and has been swapped out or is available from a backing file on disk. It is not an error. However, a high number of hard faults may explain the slow response time of an application if it must continually read data back from disk rather than from physical memory.

HARD faults arent errors. my computer runs disk keeper 2010, and the page file deletes on shut down so i highly doubt it needs a defrag. as far as i can tell, its normal ops to get hard faults when running scans of any type. my computer starts fast. less than 2 minutes and most of that is becuase it has to go through the GRUB loader so i can pick an OS, it runs right, all the benchmarks are where they should be. i cant find anything wrong.

yeah i have tried everything. it honestly seems to be just normal function. i dont know if it is for sure though. its kinda annoying paying for 6 gigs of ram and then your cpu only used 45% of it. i never see this thing go above 45%ram usage. even with 3d cad running.

yeah i used ms config, and services to shut down all the bloat ware.. i also shut down all the windows crappy security and UAC as well. comodo works excellet in place of UAC. does the same thing, but gives more info. anyways..i dont think any of that has any bearing on the hard faults. i ran another mal ware scan with a different program and it did the same thing.

well, that and aero.

non. as a matter of fact, memory management is the only thing left that vista is doing. i shut down everything else.

wont let me for some reason.. might be because im using free. i know the hard faults mean that something written in ram, is moved to the paging file. (virtual memory basically) its weird though because i wasn't (and still am not) accessing even half of my ram. 6 gb installed i cut off windows paging control, and set it to 1024-2048, and the number of hard faults has fallen well below 2000...was 7000. still not exactly sure why, seeing as how it has the highest priority, it shouldnt be writing to the HD. but whatever. the only option is to cut paging off completely, but some programs need it to run. must say, my hdd is DRAMITACLLY quieter now that i have cut off indexer and turned the paging down. i bet if i turn diskeeper off it will barely run lol

i noticed that AM has over 7000 hard memory faults per minute. i know this has something to do with the paging file, but i dont see why it would be writing to the disk instead of using ram. i set priority to real time, and it didnt affect it. still used the paging file. i have 6gb of installed ram. and with 3d CAD software, and photoshop 4 open, with AM running, it would only use 40% of my ram, so im cutting the size down from 6 gb to 1 (paging file) ill let you know how it works, just wanted to find out if the hard faults were normal. thanks