Even after a reload of Vista Premium 64 bit, I have an extremely lot of
background activity that goes on that horrendously zaps the computer
efficiency. The hard drive light on the case just goes and goes and goes even
when you are doing nothing. Yes, I have considered a virus, but have scanned
and scanned with Norton and Defender. It's as though the computer is always
hunting for a file it can't find.

The Event Viewer has a high volumn of errors (and warnings). Total of 6,200
errors and 1,700 warnings. Many are from Nero 8, WMI, and OUTLOOK.EXE etc.

System: Intel E8400 on a Asus P5Q-EM w/ 8gb of OCZ.

When you first install Visa you experience the inefficient indexing of your
hard drives, which may be part of your problem.
Alas, what you describe is the bane of all Windows systems, excessive and
inexplicable background activity. Two machines appear to have identical
programs installed and one thrashes wildly, the other less so.
You can winnow through your start-up program and processes and use Task
Manager, their other free utilities out there, to see what is really
thrashing the hard drive and CPU.
It can happen in XP, but Vista seems worse: extreme amounts of hard drive
thrashing that seems to prolong the shut-down process forever.
This is worse if the machine has ever been in sleep/hibernate mode prior to
powering down under which circumstances many machines will cycle forever in
the shut-down process without a hard reboot.
It is easy to find explanations from Microsoft about what is supposed to
happen during disc thrashing as well as during shutdown. However in its
usual fashion Microsoft pretends these common scenarios do not happen and
any information about them on the lack of Knowledge Base is extremely basic
and useless.

Thanks.

"pupick" wrote:

>
> When you first install Visa you experience the inefficient indexing of your
> hard drives, which may be part of your problem.
> Alas, what you describe is the bane of all Windows systems, excessive and
> inexplicable background activity. Two machines appear to have identical
> programs installed and one thrashes wildly, the other less so.
> You can winnow through your start-up program and processes and use Task
> Manager, their other free utilities out there, to see what is really
> thrashing the hard drive and CPU.
> It can happen in XP, but Vista seems worse: extreme amounts of hard drive
> thrashing that seems to prolong the shut-down process forever.
> This is worse if the machine has ever been in sleep/hibernate mode prior to
> powering down under which circumstances many machines will cycle forever in
> the shut-down process without a hard reboot.
> It is easy to find explanations from Microsoft about what is supposed to
> happen during disc thrashing as well as during shutdown. However in its
> usual fashion Microsoft pretends these common scenarios do not happen and
> any information about them on the lack of Knowledge Base is extremely basic
> and useless.
>
>