Vista Tutorial - Disk Activity

On startup, my laptop goes into a huge amount of disk activity to about 70%
of processing power for several minutes to the point I cannot access
programs until it finishes, I have edited the startup via msconfig but this
still happens with no processors running. Any ideas what may be causing
this?

Disable the indexing service, and if that doesn't help enough also disable superfetch. It is very likely one or both of these things.

Do this by going to "Services" from the Start menu [just type it in the search box].
Indexing is "Windows Search" on the list, superfetch is itself.

Also use this guide, if needed;
Index - Enable or Disable

Go to Administrative Tools > Reliability and Performance Monitor and on the
right, click on the drop-down arrow to see what program/service is
accessing/using the CPU, Hard Disk, Network or Memory.

"Bob from down under" wrote:

It's a brilliant idea from MS called speedsearch

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