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Old 03-12-2007   #4 (permalink)
JediDog


 
 

Re: What's all this disk activity?

I think that Superfetch is part of what I'm seeing. So is Registry Backup.
And I've seen a bunch of writes to System Volume Information, so I may have
also seen an Automatic Restore Point creation.

Can I turn Superfetch off?


"Gary" wrote:

>
> On 12-Mar-2007, =?Utf-8?B?SmVkaURvZw==?= <JediDog@discussions.microsoft.com>
> wrote:
>
> > My Lenovo 3000 laptop came with Windows Vista Home Premium. Whenever I
> > start
> > it up and log on, the hard drive is active for five minutes or more after
> > all
> > of the startup applications have initialized. The performance monitor
> > shows
> > a huge number of reads and writes being done by the kernel. I've tried
> > turning off every feature I can think of, but nothing has any effect.
> > What
> > is happening?

>
> Superfetch is at work loading programs into memory for faster access. Look
> at as a cache.
>

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