Vista Disk Activity

[John Lane]

I've noticed that when I first start up Vista (Home Premium Edition) the disk
will rattle like crazy to the point of slowing down any mouse movement or
keyboard activity. I bring up Task Manager, and of course there is no
processor activity to speak of to be seen. I kill as many processes as I can
and it still contiues for a while, then subsides. What is doing this and can
I make it stop, or is it doing a backup in the unlikely event Vista crashes
so that it can recover? Any help that can be supplied will be appreciated.

 

[Rich]

I've noticed that when I first start up Vista (Home Premium Edition) the
disk
will rattle like crazy to the point of slowing down any mouse movement or
keyboard activity. I bring up Task Manager, and of course there is no
processor activity to speak of to be seen. I kill as many processes as I
can
and it still contiues for a while, then subsides. What is doing this and
can
I make it stop, or is it doing a backup in the unlikely event Vista
crashes
so that it can recover? Any help that can be supplied will be appreciated.

Do a search for Vista disk thrashing. That will lead you to links to stop
some of the things that cause this. Writing the pagefile over and over is
what I see on my work machine. I bought more ram and will see if that fixes
my problem.

Good luck, Rich

 

[Richard G. Harper]

This is pretty much normal and stopping it would result in decreased
performance, not increased performance. A number of things including search
indexing, prefetch, and other housekeeping tasks are running. On my
computers it lasts only a few seconds to perhaps a minute or so, so I just
ignore it until it's done.