Vista - Turn off scanning at boot

It's great how fast Vista boots. But, the fact that it scans the hard disk
every time I boot up slows me down. I assume this is the indexer, which I
might turn off. Are there ways to turn off the auto-scan at boot-time?

If you just recently installed, give it some time to finish the initial
index. Once it finishes, the indexing is barely noticeable.

"Tom" <none@none.com> wrote in message
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> It's great how fast Vista boots. But, the fact that it scans the hard
> disk every time I boot up slows me down. I assume this is the indexer,
> which I might turn off. Are there ways to turn off the auto-scan at
> boot-time?

"LaRoux" <hlx@newsgroup.nospam> wrote in message
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> If you just recently installed, give it some time to finish the initial
> index. Once it finishes, the indexing is barely noticeable.
>
Thanks, LaRoux. I've been running Vista for more than a month, so this isn't
the initial indexing.

ProcMon.exe shows svchost doing a Open, Read File System Control of
FSCTL_GET_RETRIEVAL_POINTERS, and a close on every file on my system, it
appears. And, (related?) WMIADAP.exe checking
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WBEM\CIMOM\ThrottleDrege periodically).

It appears to me that Vista is scanning my HD after each reboot.

What makes you say that? Is the hard disk light on or what makes you say it
is scanning after each reboot?
How much memory do you have and what processor?
jf



"Tom" wrote:

>
> "LaRoux" <hlx@newsgroup.nospam> wrote in message
> news:%23i5bvekRHHA.4260@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> > If you just recently installed, give it some time to finish the initial
> > index. Once it finishes, the indexing is barely noticeable.
> >
> Thanks, LaRoux. I've been running Vista for more than a month, so this isn't
> the initial indexing.
>
> ProcMon.exe shows svchost doing a Open, Read File System Control of
> FSCTL_GET_RETRIEVAL_POINTERS, and a close on every file on my system, it
> appears. And, (related?) WMIADAP.exe checking
> HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WBEM\CIMOM\ThrottleDrege periodically).
>
> It appears to me that Vista is scanning my HD after each reboot.
>
>

"jimmy fallon" <jimmyfallon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> What makes you say that? Is the hard disk light on or what makes you say
> it
> is scanning after each reboot?
> How much memory do you have and what processor?
> jf

Yes, the hard disk is very busy after booting (for ten or fifteen minutes
perhaps) -- I can hear it and see the drive light, and system preformance is
bad. There may be better monitoring tools in Vista itself, but I use
SysInternal's Process Explorer to watch what's going on and I can see svhost
do an Open, Read File System Control of FSCTL_GET_RETRIEVAL_POINTERS, and a
close on every file ).

HW: 2 gigs of RAM, 2 ghz Core Duo., external thumb drive. Dell D820.

Tom is this a fresh install or an upgrade?

Vista has some GREAT tools for testing stuff, one of which is "reliabilty
monitor"
You can get to that by clicking start and typing in reliabilty monitor...

open that and click on reliabilty monitor, you'll see a graph that either
goes up (good) or down (bad).
the red x's will flag problems...

I"m more concerned about whether you did an upgrade or a fresh install.
Vista should SMOKE on a duo core with 2 gigs...

Your problem is NOT normal.
jf

"Tom" wrote:

> It's great how fast Vista boots. But, the fact that it scans the hard disk
> every time I boot up slows me down. I assume this is the indexer, which I
> might turn off. Are there ways to turn off the auto-scan at boot-time?
>
>

"Tom" <none@none.com> wrote

> "jimmy fallon" wrote

>> What makes you say that? Is the hard disk light on or what makes you say
>> it
>> is scanning after each reboot?
>> How much memory do you have and what processor?
>> jf
>
> Yes, the hard disk is very busy after booting (for ten or fifteen minutes
> perhaps) -- I can hear it and see the drive light, and system preformance
> is bad. There may be better monitoring tools in Vista itself, but I use
> SysInternal's Process Explorer to watch what's going on and I can see
> svhost do an Open, Read File System Control of
> FSCTL_GET_RETRIEVAL_POINTERS, and a close on every file ).
>
> HW: 2 gigs of RAM, 2 ghz Core Duo., external thumb drive. Dell D820.

There is a lot of disk activity on boot up, and especially so for a time
right after the installation as indexing does it's work. It get an idea
what's happening go to Start | type in Reliability. Before your done it
should pop up Reliability and Performance Monitor at the top of the left
pane. Click it. In the right pane expand the disk and CPU sections. Sort
in disk by Writes. Compare PIDs between CPU and Disk entries to see what
files are being written and by what process. You will see how eventually it
slows down.

--
Rock [MVP - User/Shell]

"Rock" <rock@nospam.net>'s wild thoughts were released on
Thu, 1 Feb 2007 20:18:52 -0800 bearing the following fruit:

>"Tom" <none@none.com> wrote
>
>> "jimmy fallon" wrote
>
>>> What makes you say that? Is the hard disk light on or what makes you say
>>> it
>>> is scanning after each reboot?
>>> How much memory do you have and what processor?
>>> jf
>>
>> Yes, the hard disk is very busy after booting (for ten or fifteen minutes
>> perhaps) -- I can hear it and see the drive light, and system preformance
>> is bad. There may be better monitoring tools in Vista itself, but I use
>> SysInternal's Process Explorer to watch what's going on and I can see
>> svhost do an Open, Read File System Control of
>> FSCTL_GET_RETRIEVAL_POINTERS, and a close on every file ).
>>
>> HW: 2 gigs of RAM, 2 ghz Core Duo., external thumb drive. Dell D820.
>
>There is a lot of disk activity on boot up, and especially so for a time
>right after the installation as indexing does it's work. It get an idea
>what's happening go to Start | type in Reliability. Before your done it
>should pop up Reliability and Performance Monitor at the top of the left
>pane. Click it. In the right pane expand the disk and CPU sections. Sort
>in disk by Writes. Compare PIDs between CPU and Disk entries to see what
>files are being written and by what process. You will see how eventually it
>slows down.

My home computer takes about 30 seconds to stop disk
activity on boot - but this is due to my virus checker going
mad as all my startup program load.



Jan Hyde (VB MVP)

--
adolescent, n: a teenager that acts like a
baby when you don't treat him like an adult.

"jimmy fallon" <jimmyfallon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> What makes you say that? Is the hard disk light on or what makes you say
> it
> is scanning after each reboot?
> How much memory do you have and what processor?
> jf
>

I can see my drive light, hear the drive, experience the machine slow-down,
and witness (see my previous post) svhost touching all the files on my
drive.

I'm running pretty fast machine: 2ghz clock, 2gig RAM, Core Duo