Thread: disk thrashing
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Old 05-04-2008   #3 (permalink)
Freddy Flares


 
 

Re: disk thrashing

"jimb11 via WindowsKB.com" <u25693@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Anyone know where I could find any freeware that would troubleshoot why my
> hard drive thrashs for five minutes after I boot up?
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Disable the Windows Search service (Indexing) and also the Superfetch
service.

Superfetch is basically trying to predict what files you are likely to
access during the next session and loads them into RAM.

Problem is, in my experience the hard drive gets thrashed for 10 minutes
after every bootup and 99% of those files won't be accessed anyway. The
files you do access will be cached into a buffer anyway so it's a bit of a
pointless service.

FF

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