Vista - Vista 64 Slow Performace Sametime Each Week

I have an HP Pavilion Intel Core 2 Quad 4GB Memory running Vista 64 Home Premium Edition. The Computer runs great except once a week around the sametime on Monday night the copmputer runs slow (100% Disk according to Performance Monitor ) I have turned off superfetch, Defrag, indexing. Virus updater and everthing else in the task scheduler.

What tasks does Vista do once a week that is not scheduled that would impact performance, can I turn it off, delay it....... What is Vista doing?

Thank you,

Jef

Only once a week, you are lucky, mine is slow all the time.

Have you used the process manager to see wich programs/processes is running when it is extra slow?

Regards Martin

Rick Rogers wrote:
It's not some crap HP have hidden on there is it?

maybe HP auto updates?

WOW!! I thought I was the only one with this weird problem but my HP
Core 2 Quad 6700 PC with Vista 64 home does the same thing. Once a week
(wednesday) it goes under some misterious hard drive intensive
processing which does not let me do anyting until it completes. The
funny thing is that if I shut down the PC and then turn it back up it
will continue that anoying process unti it does what it wants

Right now I am trying what it was suggested for Jeff but does anyone
have any other ideas?


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Gahhh! Same problem here! And it's an HP Pavilion m9350f. Problem usually occurs late Tuesday morning and abates a few hours later... but today it's still running slow well into the evening. I've looked at all running processes, checked for viruses, turned off seemingly unnecessary stuff, etc. etc....nothing seems out of the ordinary.

HELLLLLPPPPP!!!

One note to add: I've even tried disabling all startup programs/services. No luck.

Also, we should compare installed software. I'm running Office 2007, iTunes, MozyHome, Firefox, and uTorrent. That's about it.

HP machines are built well with good hardware, usually. Unfortunately all I haver ever worked on are bundled with some lousey software and maintanence programs that ruin what would normally be a good machine. Solution I have found: Wipe the drive, get a copy of the OS you want to run and start from scratch using NONE of the software that came with the machine....but this will void your warrenty of course...it is not Vista...it is something going on with the machine...probably part of the software bundle.

That's probably the best idea I've heard yet. I was going to do a system restore, but I've got Vista x64, so maybe I'll just do that. Definitely don't need any/all of HP's shovelware. Of course, maybe I'll just go nuts and run the Windows 7 beta...