Vista - Constant hd thrashing in vista

I'm seriously fed up with Vista. I just want to grab some MS guy by the throat and yell in his ear that he isn't as smart as he thinks he is if he can release this kind of **** and expect people to upgrade.

lsass.exe is thrashing my HD
searchindexer.exe is thrashing my HD
2 SVChosts.exe are thrashing my HD, one being superfetch

MS likes to ask tough interview quesetions, but I got a tough question for them: how the hell does someone with IVY league education release software as buggy as Vista and not have any interactive support? Am I supposed to pay 50 dollars just to tell you your software sucks ****?

I've been living with this lag for a YEAR now but damnit it really **** me off today.

What are your system specs. Particularly, how much memory do you have installed. Please, be as detailed as possible.

And do you have SP1 installed? This "disk thrashing" problem is not an issue with SP1.

Have you given the SearchIndexer time to complete it's indexing?

Vista SP1 last updated last night with latest patches
AMD 3800+
ASUS A8Sx
4GB ultra DDR 400mhz - 3 seen by vista
Seagate 7200 RPM 500 GB
nvidia 8800 GTX
4GB Readyboost USB
installed vista ultimate on brand new drive
I let searchindexer complete, but it restarts everytime i login for 5 minutes.

Hi,


Haven't had a problem with it myself, but these may help

Index - Enable or Disable

Indexing Options

SIW2

I have killed the indexer but the HD noises continue. I read about superfetch, which doesn't even let me stop/disable from the services page. So I killed the svchost behind it, still no change. Next lsass.exe, whatever that does. I killed that too and my HD is still going, even though its not being reported on the task manager with full privileges.

There is usually silence after about 20 minutes after logging in but it seems to go again around midnight. I did not mention before, but I am using Avast antivirus.

My hd started to do the same until I tracked it down to a newly installed sidebar gadget in the form of a multi meter which showed hd usage and ram usage. Once disabled all returned to normal.

Hi Softwareguy,

That kind of disk thrashing is not normal.

Not being able to stop the superfetch service is a concern.You can disable it in the registry. Open Regedit and go to

HKLM\System\Current Control Set\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\Prefetch Parameters, then double click Enable Superfetch in the right pane and set the value to 0.

Don't think that will cure it tho. In cases of strange behaviour, it's worth checking for nasties. Avast is good, but he can't catch everything. You might try downloading the free mbam , update and do a full scan

www.malwarebytes.org.

Also run SFC - this handy app. will do it for you - just click find and fix errors

http://www.vistax64.com/software-too...heck-tool.html

If there are file corruptions that can't fix, using the Vista install dvd to repair the system files without damaging your programs and settings may do the job:

Repair Install For Vista

Hope that helps

SIW2

I doubt its a virus. The trick to turn off superfetch is to login as admin. I did that shutoff superfetch and had a few days of peace. Today it started up again for 15 min after I woke up my computer. This time I took a picture:

Hi softwareguy,

You could try this -

Open Regedit and go to

HKLM\System\Current Control Set\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\Prefetch Parameters, then double click Enable Superfetch in the right pane and set the value to 0.








Hope it helps

SIW2

You may also want to DLoad and run the Free diagnostics from the drive manuf. site.