On startup, my laptop goes into a huge amount of disk activity to about 70%
of processing power for several minutes to the point I cannot access
programs until it finishes, I have edited the startup via msconfig but this
still happens with no processors running. Any ideas what may be causing
this?

Go to Administrative Tools > Reliability and Performance Monitor and on the
right, click on the drop-down arrow to see what program/service is
accessing/using the CPU, Hard Disk, Network or Memory.

"Bob from down under" wrote:

> On startup, my laptop goes into a huge amount of disk activity to about 70%
> of processing power for several minutes to the point I cannot access
> programs until it finishes, I have edited the startup via msconfig but this
> still happens with no processors running. Any ideas what may be causing
> this?
>

It's a brilliant idea from MS called speedsearch

"BurrWalnut" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Go to Administrative Tools > Reliability and Performance Monitor and on
> the
> right, click on the drop-down arrow to see what program/service is
> accessing/using the CPU, Hard Disk, Network or Memory.
>
> "Bob from down under" wrote:
>
>> On startup, my laptop goes into a huge amount of disk activity to about
>> 70%
>> of processing power for several minutes to the point I cannot access
>> programs until it finishes, I have edited the startup via msconfig but
>> this
>> still happens with no processors running. Any ideas what may be causing
>> this?
>>