Vista - Disk Drive going constantly since upgrading to Vista

Okay, since upgrading my Windows XP Tablet pc to Windows Vista I've noticed
that my disk drive seems to be going constantly. The machine is a dual core
1.7 gig tablet with 2 gig of ram. The ram usage hasn't gone over 50% (which
is still higher than under XP, but I had expected that). I cannot figure out
what could be causing the disk activity as the only processes running that
are using CPU are iexplorer.exe, dwm.exe, sidebar.exe, and accasionally
System and svchost.exe.

Is anyone else seeing this behavior?

Could it be the indexer?

Take a look at the disk section in the Reliability and Performance Monitor
(type Reliability in the Start menu Search). It'll tell what's doing the
reading and writing and to which file(s).

--Jason

"John Bailey" wrote:

> Okay, since upgrading my Windows XP Tablet pc to Windows Vista I've noticed
> that my disk drive seems to be going constantly. The machine is a dual core
> 1.7 gig tablet with 2 gig of ram. The ram usage hasn't gone over 50% (which
> is still higher than under XP, but I had expected that). I cannot figure out
> what could be causing the disk activity as the only processes running that
> are using CPU are iexplorer.exe, dwm.exe, sidebar.exe, and accasionally
> System and svchost.exe.
>
> Is anyone else seeing this behavior?

Thanks for the tip! No the indexer doesn't appear to be the culprit. It
would appear to be related to the My Documents redirection. The documents in
my documents folder appear to be constantly synchronizing with the server
even though they are already synchronized and available offline.

Is there an issue with My Documents redirection in Windows Vista? Or maybe
there is a trick to how I'm supposed to do it?

"Jason Hanford-Smith" wrote:

> Could it be the indexer?
>
> Take a look at the disk section in the Reliability and Performance Monitor
> (type Reliability in the Start menu Search). It'll tell what's doing the
> reading and writing and to which file(s).
>
> --Jason
>
> "John Bailey" wrote:
>
> > Okay, since upgrading my Windows XP Tablet pc to Windows Vista I've noticed
> > that my disk drive seems to be going constantly. The machine is a dual core
> > 1.7 gig tablet with 2 gig of ram. The ram usage hasn't gone over 50% (which
> > is still higher than under XP, but I had expected that). I cannot figure out
> > what could be causing the disk activity as the only processes running that
> > are using CPU are iexplorer.exe, dwm.exe, sidebar.exe, and accasionally
> > System and svchost.exe.
> >
> > Is anyone else seeing this behavior?

When I had outlook 2003 installed on vista rtm, I noticed a lof of disk
activity. After upgrading to 2007, it was better.


"John Bailey" <JohnBailey@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:5D728307-088C-414B-A091-EF05B4F186AE@microsoft.com...
> Thanks for the tip! No the indexer doesn't appear to be the culprit. It
> would appear to be related to the My Documents redirection. The documents
> in
> my documents folder appear to be constantly synchronizing with the server
> even though they are already synchronized and available offline.
>
> Is there an issue with My Documents redirection in Windows Vista? Or
> maybe
> there is a trick to how I'm supposed to do it?
>
> "Jason Hanford-Smith" wrote:
>
>> Could it be the indexer?
>>
>> Take a look at the disk section in the Reliability and Performance
>> Monitor
>> (type Reliability in the Start menu Search). It'll tell what's doing the
>> reading and writing and to which file(s).
>>
>> --Jason
>>
>> "John Bailey" wrote:
>>
>> > Okay, since upgrading my Windows XP Tablet pc to Windows Vista I've
>> > noticed
>> > that my disk drive seems to be going constantly. The machine is a dual
>> > core
>> > 1.7 gig tablet with 2 gig of ram. The ram usage hasn't gone over 50%
>> > (which
>> > is still higher than under XP, but I had expected that). I cannot
>> > figure out
>> > what could be causing the disk activity as the only processes running
>> > that
>> > are using CPU are iexplorer.exe, dwm.exe, sidebar.exe, and accasionally
>> > System and svchost.exe.
>> >
>> > Is anyone else seeing this behavior?