So, you get up on Monday morning and the first thing you want to do is get stuck into work, complete the benchmarking you started on Friday and move on. It doesn’t quite work that way with Windows Vista. As I loaded up the Crysis benchmark, I noticed a whole heap of hard drive activity and then I remember that Vista likes to automatically defragment hard drives. You watch the RAM usage go through the roof and benchmarks end up no where near where they were when Vista wasn’t trying to fragment your hard drive at the same time. Little features like this are great for the average user. And I know there is a way to disable it but you’d think it would be a standard option, with easy access to turn on and off. On the other hand, ensuring that a hard drive I properly defragmented before benchmarking, is always a good idea. So rather than continuing on with the last tests I need to do with this particular video card, I’m defragmenting hard drives and typing out this blog.