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12-14-2007
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| | Constant Disk activity - even with Indexing off Vista is thrashing my hard disk, for ages at startup, even though I've switched indexing off. Performance Monitor reveals Explorer.exe appears to be reading all the files on my hard drive, and Svchost appears particularly fascinated by my Avi files. What on earth is Vista up to? Tombo |
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12-14-2007
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| | Re: Constant Disk activity - even with Indexing off Have you ran a scan with your Antivirus and your AntiSpyware software? -- Andre Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com My Vista Quickstart Guide: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog...3DB!9709.entry "Thomas Tooltucker" <Thomas@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:OjpFX4kPIHA.5140@xxxxxx Quote: > Vista is thrashing my hard disk, for ages at startup, even though I've > switched indexing off. > > Performance Monitor reveals Explorer.exe appears to be reading all the > files on my hard drive, and Svchost appears particularly fascinated by my > Avi files. > > What on earth is Vista up to? > > Tombo |
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12-14-2007
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| | Re: Constant Disk activity - even with Indexing off Yes, nothing. Defender is also switched off. "Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]" <andred25@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:uAN3t%23kPIHA.4684@xxxxxx Quote: > Have you ran a scan with your Antivirus and your AntiSpyware software? > -- > Andre > Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com > My Vista Quickstart Guide: > http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog...3DB!9709.entry > "Thomas Tooltucker" <Thomas@xxxxxx> wrote in message > news:OjpFX4kPIHA.5140@xxxxxx Quote: >> Vista is thrashing my hard disk, for ages at startup, even though I've >> switched indexing off. >> >> Performance Monitor reveals Explorer.exe appears to be reading all the >> files on my hard drive, and Svchost appears particularly fascinated by my >> Avi files. >> >> What on earth is Vista up to? >> >> Tombo > |
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12-14-2007
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| | Re: Constant Disk activity - even with Indexing off On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:46:47 -0000, "Thomas Tooltucker" <Thomas@xxxxxx> wrote: Quote: >Yes, nothing. Defender is also switched off. Vista Service installed by Nero 7 and above. ("NM*********") I also uninstalled any of Nero's programs which start with Windows. They are unnecessary, anyway, since none of Nero's Home Media programs work as they should. I only use Nero Burning Rom. I tried the other crap, and it is pretty worthless. Nero's own indexing services are constantly writing and reading to the HD. They never work anyway, but still keep the disk open constantly. This could be what leads to the disk thrashing you are experiencing. Vista is not the ONLY application which has this crazy and slow indexing. I would not use any third-party application which includes its own indexing services under Vista, nor would I use Vista's indexing services. Disable them under Vista Services.. The old Search works just as well, albeit a little slower (but not by much).. Donald L McDaniel |
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12-16-2007
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| | Re: Constant Disk activity - even with Indexing off Thanks for the tip Donald, I'll watch out for that when I install Nero. But (as yet) I haven't installed Nero, and the accessing appears to be coming from Explorer.exe. It's very irritating. Tombo "Donald L McDaniel" <orthocross@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:adq5m3tusjt5i94p95akprr8o9lmvhg3up@xxxxxx Quote: > On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:46:47 -0000, "Thomas Tooltucker" > <Thomas@xxxxxx> wrote: > Quote: >>Yes, nothing. Defender is also switched off. > I was experiencing the same problem. I fixed it by disabling EVERY > Vista Service installed by Nero 7 and above. ("NM*********") > I also uninstalled any of Nero's programs which start with Windows. > They are unnecessary, anyway, since none of Nero's Home Media programs > work as they should. I only use Nero Burning Rom. I tried the other > crap, and it is pretty worthless. > > Nero's own indexing services are constantly writing and reading to the > HD. They never work anyway, but still keep the disk open constantly. > This could be what leads to the disk thrashing you are experiencing. > > Vista is not the ONLY application which has this crazy and slow > indexing. I would not use any third-party application which includes > its own indexing services under Vista, nor would I use Vista's > indexing services. Disable them under Vista Services.. The old > Search works just as well, albeit a little slower (but not by much).. > > Donald L McDaniel |
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