"John Lane" <JohnLane@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I've noticed that when I first start up Vista (Home Premium Edition) the
> disk
> will rattle like crazy to the point of slowing down any mouse movement or
> keyboard activity. I bring up Task Manager, and of course there is no
> processor activity to speak of to be seen. I kill as many processes as I
> can
> and it still contiues for a while, then subsides. What is doing this and
> can
> I make it stop, or is it doing a backup in the unlikely event Vista
> crashes
> so that it can recover? Any help that can be supplied will be appreciated.
Do a search for Vista disk thrashing. That will lead you to links to stop
some of the things that cause this. Writing the pagefile over and over is
what I see on my work machine. I bought more ram and will see if that fixes
my problem.
Good luck, Rich