vinifera

no, I don't want to fight, I wanted merely point out that prefetcher being such agressive service (atleast in vista) can't be "light" (as given example above)

everything was cleaned 1 month ago and as told, this doesn't happen every 3 hours, but only 1st time after 3 hrs pass when I turn PC on, then it lasts ... 10 hours

I had a chance to see in certain shop of owners PC back then his machine had 16 GB RAM, and 12 GB of those 16 were FULL because of that prefetch are you telling me that reading those scattered 12 GB all over disk were low I/O ? how can it be low when it has to load it all on startup immediately ?

I have certain problem, this started to happen in last 5 weeks period my PC starts to turn off for no reason after 2-3 hours of working, and this happens only once per day when I turn it on 2nd time, it will run indefinitely so I suspect more on OS problem than hardware in control panel/power settings nothing is timered

it does speed up later, but my main point is: at what cost and time ?

so is XP faster than both so is 2000 faster than all 3 if you want to test NT 6, disable DWM and all its "new features", get it back to barebones as 2000 was then compare

I use Avira free always on win7, interface is crap, but scanner is great and its free... and you get frequent updates for free the problem you say of AV's that slow down machine is that you have to disable "active scanners", no matter of AV they all have this and they scan opened and downloaded files "on the go", so yeah this slows always everything

its useless on normal HDD too yes, goal is to load all crap you use frequent in RAM but to do that OS has to 1. index the stuff 2. constantly analyse and write data of (how they said) "your habits" 3. when it by some miracle finishes within a month it reads .sf files (think that was the extension)then within them sees path to real programsthen finally loads your programs into the RAMthis is waste of time, and waste of computer's work, while both vista and 7 do this job, youre better of defragment your HDD and normally run apps not to mention how superfetch slows down "boot to desktop" process as with case of fonts, OS needs to load this .pf list and normally biggest fail is when you restart/shutdown PC, all this cached RAM info is gone and process of loading all starts again at least to me, for any home user this is crap feature, for business and companies ok, they probably have PC on for weeks

so remove Norton then try without it theres obvious clash between the two

actually prefetch is useless so its best to disable it, especially on SSD

those are system classic appearance settings you can reach them by going to Personalisation -> windows color ->click on "advanced appearance settings" at the bottom changing size goes more to system metrics than skin editing tho images loaded are still locked down to certain minimum size, for example you can't have (atleast in vista/7) thin borders as in XP, they will always revert back to locked size that was meant for "glass" size loaded by skin image as always MS wants to enforce their "vision" of OS look, so they lock down other skins + it saves them huuuuge time for OS support, imagine thousand of peoples downloading broken skin, and calling MS support

except UI improvement of 7 over vista is huge, and that means alot to user just compare Explorer, vista's is clunky, everything is squished, icon below icon, no organisation, not to mention the annoying scroll to the right thingy 7's explorer finally introduced separation of different folder types, its neater-cleaner-more organised, you have favorites tree which is excelent vista taskbar = xp + useless thumbnails 7 one is fantastic desktop, sidebar vs free floating gadgets, 7 wins start menu ?, small change but instant shutdown button again wins in 7 - system wise win7 has less agressive superfetch and UAC

you can't disable such things via registry as they are "built in" to "read" from skin file editing .msstyle is easiest and only way to go

personally I always avoided AVG, it was trash in past, doubt its better now

1. orb is never shown on classic theme 2. if all browsers are affected (and I see your taskbar is FUBAR too), its probably malware and not graphic driver 2.1 your anti-virus software could also affect how browser "related" images show, as they often filter/block content on their own 3. if its not malware (system graphic related) then your uxtheme.dll is unsigned (thus broken)

//ot don't get me wrong, I am not "spitting" on vlite, it is great tool I was merely pointing out that without hacks it didn't support 7 SP1

well from my experience, vlite always broke 7 SP1 I'm still using rt7 lited win7/sp1, and been so for 3 years now they both kinda offered same options but rt7 was more compatible for instance in vlite if you choose to remove SxS, this will break everything always, even on vista while rt7 doesn't break system with its "removal"

so by that so called METRO is new technology ? since win8 is not desktop anymore but how is putting HTML/JS as UI new technology ? they experimented with this since win95 and trashed it in late 1999 they can sell this to naive people... but not to me...

If so, maybe those did not existed in Win 7 time. 2 did vlite can/could edit 7 RTM RT 7 lite can/could edit both RTM and later SP1 (when it came out)

there are plenty of tools that customize win7 so don't talk BS

one more reason among million why not use winblows 8

as always its up to apple to show micro$oft the right way ...

its easy to make w7 lite, its hard to make it without breaking something

or search for possible patches that match your problem

it would be nice if possible to have IE removed from XP without damage to shell as for your new possible project that replaces vlite, a way to "disable"/remove winsxs, like win7 rt lite does without damage to system, and again IE removal (this for NT 6, not XP)