Paul H

Rock, I did as Tiberius suggested, and not only did my system get extremely
fast, but some Windows Mail performance problems went away! So it's too
late to determine what disk activity was taking place. I would have tried
what you suggested, and I appreciate yours and Lang's help. Thx. Paul

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"Rock" <Rock@nospam.net> wrote in message
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"Paul H" wrote
> Well, it looks like I have to restart my Vista Home Premium again. The
> disk
> meter frequently goes to and stays at 90% or greater, and anything I
> attempt
> to do takes minutes, not the already unreasonable seconds like it did
> until
> last Wednesday. My old XP Pro is lightning fast compared to this. A
> restart fixes the problem for an hour or so. Task manager does not show
> any
> program other than those showing on the bottom of the screen. I run
> Ad-Aware frequently (it always finds 20 or so) and I'm using Avast to
> prevent any virus. Help, anybody?

Run the Reliability and Performance monitor to get an idea of what files are
being accessed. From Start type in Reliability. Right click on it when it
appears at the top left. Choose run as administrator. Once it opens expand
the disk section to see what files are being accessed. The PID corresponds
to the process that opens those files.

Note I have the ReadyBoost process running and it doesn't cause any disk
access. I have no idea where Tiberius is getting that from. Now if you are
in fact using ReadyBoost with a thumb drive or SD card, then yes that the
ReadyBoost cache file that is created on those drives will be accessed, but
it's not continuous like you are experiencing, and it certainly doesn't have
the impact you are seeing.

I also have indexing service running and again don't see the same effect you
are.

At any rate the first step is to find out what actually is writing to the
disk.

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Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]