In the Hard Drive properties, you can turn off indexing.
Its not that feature. Found the one what was annoying me in services, called windowsearch, I was looking for something along the lines of search indexer before so didnt see it.
Also tried a reinstall of the creative drivers with the enforced driver signature turned off but still doesnt work, and the F8 solution only works once, so you have to press it everytime you boot up otherwise the device with unreconginised driver signature will not work. Thats still the most annoying feature up to now.
And my hard drive still gets drilled, only for around thr first 10 mins after boot, so gonna leave that and say its due to being beta, with the indexer on it just kept going so I got some improvement by turning it off.
As for gaming performance, it around 4 - 6 fps difference in some of the benchmarks and games i've played, so not to bad, thats with the the catalyst drivers on ati's site.
Overall I still prefer XP, theres to many sub menus and favorite menus and quick search menus and menus there just because they could sqeeze them in on vista. I just dont like all these menus
They make everything look very cluttered imo