Vista startup eating up a 1G netcard for 3 hours

When I start up my Vista Ultimate system, I have it auto logging in to my account. It maps, with drive letters, 7 NAS drive shares on a BuffaloTech 4T NAS unit.

The problem is, the 'system' process eats 20-30% of my 1G network card for 3+ hours, talking to my NAS unit!!!!

What is it doing?

Enclosed is a picture from my Computer Management screen showing huge network I/O
that goes on for hours, literally. Is Vista scanning the mapeed drives as local drives? I do NOT see these listed in the index drive screens, so it isn't that.

Hi Philhu,

Have you tired turning off the "Offline Files" feature in control panel?

dmex said:

Hi Philhu,

Have you tired turning off the "Offline Files" feature in control panel?

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Hmmm...No I haven't. Didn't even know it existed. Since it seems to have loaded up entire drives, it is probably it.

I will turn it off and delete the 'offline' files

Thanks!

-edit- Yes, that was it. It was offline copying over 60GIG of data off the Network drive. I shut it off and rebooted. Problem gone.

philhu said:

I will turn it off and delete the 'offline' files

Thanks!

-edit- Yes, that was it. It was offline copying over 60GIG of data off the Network drive. I shut it off and rebooted. Problem gone.

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Hi Ohilhu,

It can be a usefull feature in some circumstances, good to hear to solved the NAS network issue though...

Steven