What's all this disk activity?
Posted by admin on Mar 26th, 2007
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?
Mar 27th, 2007 at 03:52 am
From some of the other posts I've found, I am getting the idea that System Protection is making a Recovery Point every time I turn on the computer. I thought I turned off Recovery Points completely, so I am still mystified. "JediDog" wrote:
Mar 28th, 2007 at 12:21 am
On 12Mar2007, =?Utf8?B?SmVkaURvZw==?= wrote: Superfetch is at work loading programs into memory for faster access. Look at as a cache.
Apr 1st, 2007 at 07:22 pm
I think that Superfetch is part of what I'm seeing. So is Registry Backup. And I've seen a bunch of writes to System Volume Information, so I may have also seen an Automatic Restore Point creation. Can I turn Superfetch off? "Gary" wrote:
Apr 6th, 2007 at 05:16 am
Why on earth? What's wrong with it accessing the disk in the background? Why does it bother you? It's just doing its Vista thing. There is no need at all to mess with it you'll probably slow it down.Relax, and trust me: all is well.Thack
Apr 9th, 2007 at 06:08 pm
I've seen this issue also. For about 5 or so minutes after startup, there is a lot of disk activity. In Task Manager, it is "NT Kernel & System" that's using the resources. Whatever it's doing, it's not doing it "in the background" because while it's working it's significantly slowing down anything else I do on the computer."Steve Thackery"
Apr 14th, 2007 at 04:38 am
Thanks Tim! I have been spending a lot of time waiting for the computer and I'd like to know what it's doing. If I could turn off Superfetch, I could see what activity remains.I have 1GB of DRAM. Is that enough? "Tim" wrote:
Apr 19th, 2007 at 12:02 am
"JediDog" It's probably SearchIndex, I predict it will stop in a few days once all your stored data is indexed.
Apr 21st, 2007 at 09:40 pm
I have already tried clearing the indexing attribute for C: and subdirectories. It didn't make any discernable difference. "Lee" wrote:
Apr 27th, 2007 at 03:28 pm
"JediDog" Use Process Monitor to see what is happening microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/ProcessesAndThreads/processmonitor.mspxLee
Apr 30th, 2007 at 07:27 pm
Thanks for the tip. The other monitoring tools mentioned on that page look useful too."Lee" wrote: