Vista excessive disk access

[Guest]

Every few minutes my Vista Home Premium stops dead in its tracks with 100%
disk activity. Both CPU's are running below 25%, and RAM usage never goes
over 60%. I've already restricted the search parameters so I don't think its
that. Looking at the Resource Monitor a suspect is the page file which on
occasion does tens of thousands of reads (over 400,000 on one occasion), but
I have 2 GB of RAM and as said above lack of memory never seems to be a
problem. So why is the pagefile being hammered? Anyone got any ideas?
Thanks
Chris

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Open Device Manager (its in the Control Panel) and then
right-click on your hard drive (under Disk Drives). Click
on "Policies" and make sure there are check marks next to
"Optimize for Performance", "Enable write caching on
the disk", and "Enable advanced performance", then click OK.

Next, perform a Disk Cleanup:

Click on the blue Vista start button and then on the Computer
entry in the Start Menu. Right-click on your hard drive and
select Properties > Disk Cleanup > Files from all users.....
More Options > Clean Up (System Restore and Shadow Copies).

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

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Every few minutes my Vista Home Premium stops dead in its tracks with 100%
disk activity. Both CPU's are running below 25%, and RAM usage never goes
over 60%. I've already restricted the search parameters so I don't think its
that. Looking at the Resource Monitor a suspect is the page file which on
occasion does tens of thousands of reads (over 400,000 on one occasion), but
I have 2 GB of RAM and as said above lack of memory never seems to be a
problem. So why is the pagefile being hammered? Anyone got any ideas?
Thanks
Chris

 

[Guest]

Carey,

Thanks for this. I have done everything except the "Enable advanced
performance" - I'm using a laptop and therefore wondered if your
recommendation is the same? The disk cleanup worked fine, and I'll post
again to update on the effect in a couple of days.

Thanks again,

Chris

 

[Guest]

Carey,

The problem still persists I'm afraid.

Chris