Vista - Vista constant hard drive activity after boot

Hi,

My new computer with Vista install is really frustrating in that every
time I boot it up the hard drive is constantly churning away for 10-15
mins. I know you can look at resource manager to see whats causing
this, but it just gives a generic service name like svchost or
something and I have no idea whats its doing.

I have turned off scheduled defrag of hard drives.

Can anyone suggest what might be causing this?


Thanks,

Paul

Paul,

It could be:

1. Search Indexer
2. System Restore
3. Superfetch loading you RAM
4. Your antivirus's real time scan is doing a quick scan
5. You have a lot of startup items. Check in "msconfig", Startup tab. Turn off the startup option for the programs you don't want starting up inside the programs themselves.
6. Etc...

Hope this helps some,
Shawn

I'd like to ask a general question - hope the original poster doesn't
mind...

Is there a way to find out what is causing high hard disk usage? With task
manager, we can see what processes are running, how much memory they take,
and how much CPU they take. Is there something similar for hard disk usage?


"brink" <brink.2syduf@no-mx.forums.net> wrote in message
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Paul,

It could be:

1. Search Indexer
2. System Restore
3. Superfetch loading you RAM
4. Your antivirus's real time scan is doing a quick scan
5. You have a lot of startup items. Check in "msconfig", Startup tab.
Turn off the startup option for the programs you don't want starting up
inside the programs themselves.
6. Etc...

Hope this helps some,
Shawn


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On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 23:05:45 +0100, Jay wrote:

> I'd like to ask a general question - hope the original poster doesn't
> mind...
>
> Is there a way to find out what is causing high hard disk usage? With task
> manager, we can see what processes are running, how much memory they take,
> and how much CPU they take. Is there something similar for hard disk
> usage?

Yes, unless MS removed it, you can configure the task manager to show
bytes read and written to the HD. I have all my XP systems configured that
way.

Just look in the menu bar of the task manager window, the options should
be there somewhere to configure what columns it should be showing.

You wanna look for "io read bytes" and "io write bytes" IIRC.

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It is a new computer; so it will be indexing, etc. Hard Drive usage will be
high until the OS finishes setting itself up properly.

"puma75" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> My new computer with Vista install is really frustrating in that every
> time I boot it up the hard drive is constantly churning away for 10-15
> mins. I know you can look at resource manager to see whats causing
> this, but it just gives a generic service name like svchost or
> something and I have no idea whats its doing.
>
> I have turned off scheduled defrag of hard drives.
>
> Can anyone suggest what might be causing this?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul
>
>

Jay,

Yes.
Inside Task Manager click on the "Performance" tab and click on the "Resource Monitor" button. You will see a section for "Disk". Click the drop down arrow for full details on it.

Hope this helps,
Shawn