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Vista - What's all this disk activity?

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Old 03-14-2007   #11 (permalink)
JediDog


 
 

Re: What's all this disk activity?

Thanks for the tip. The other monitoring tools mentioned on that page look
useful too.

"Lee" wrote:

>
> "JediDog" <JediDog@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:2F3295FE-75CE-4080-80C5-E443D2B65620@microsoft.com...
> >I have already tried clearing the indexing attribute for C: and
> > subdirectories. It didn't make any discernable difference.

>
> Use Process Monitor to see what is happening
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sys...ssmonitor.mspx
>
> Lee
>
> >
> >
> > "Lee" wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> "JediDog" <JediDog@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:C855F52F-F5EB-4ABF-B71A-6C545015FEC3@microsoft.com...
> >> > My Lenovo 3000 laptop came with Windows Vista Home Premium. Whenever I
> >> > start
> >> > it up and log on, the hard drive is active for five minutes or more
> >> > after
> >> > all
> >> > of the startup applications have initialized. The performance monitor
> >> > shows
> >> > a huge number of reads and writes being done by the kernel. I've tried
> >> > turning off every feature I can think of, but nothing has any effect.
> >> > What
> >> > is happening?
> >>
> >> It's probably SearchIndex, I predict it will stop in a few days once all
> >> your stored data is indexed.
> >>
> >>

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