"JediDog" <JediDog@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2F3295FE-75CE-4080-80C5-E443D2B65620@microsoft.com...
>I have already tried clearing the indexing attribute for C: and
> subdirectories. It didn't make any discernable difference.
Use Process Monitor to see what is happening
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sys...ssmonitor.mspx
Lee
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> "Lee" wrote:
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>> "JediDog" <JediDog@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:C855F52F-F5EB-4ABF-B71A-6C545015FEC3@microsoft.com...
>> > 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?
>>
>> It's probably SearchIndex, I predict it will stop in a few days once all
>> your stored data is indexed.
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