Re: Vista Excessive Disk Activity

I have enough security items running<<<

And what may all these be including your Antivirus?

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"Pat M" <Pat M@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:3DE89681-3047-47B2-A96C-72F7447AAA5B@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I have been having exactly the same problem, shutting off internet access
does not affect it at all. I cannot get enough info out of task manager to
determine what is causing the hard drive to run continuously. I have enough
security items running that I am sure there's no bot or virus running on my
computer. One thing I have noticed is that when I allow Windows to update
itself this problem magnifies at least tenfold slowing my system down
immensely. With the issues I've had with this computer and software
manufacturers passing the buck my next system will be a Mac.






"Frank G" wrote:

I am having this exact same issue. I went thru and stopped a bunch of
services that were running and the disk activity stopped, however, it caused
my media center to start acting up and doing funny things. (i use the My
Movies add-in w/it).

anyway else figure this out ?

"rbd" wrote:

> For the past few weeks I have been attempting to create a Vista Home
> Premium configuration on a new Core 2 Duo PC. I though that I had
> finally created a stable config with all the proper hardware drivers > and
> many of my apps. I then noticed that the disk activity light was on
> solid - and I couldn't figure out why.
>
> I ran a number of process tools, the only one that seemed to provide
> useful information being Perfmon. Perfmon showed two distinct types of
> disk activity.
>
>
> The first, was causing the disk activity light to stay on solid, and > was
> caused by the reading of files on my D: data disk. I found that by
> stopping/starting the SysMain Superfetch service I can turn off/turn on
> this constant disk read activity. It appears that Superfetch looks
> through previously opened user data files - even if they were used only
> once, are 4+GB in size, and may never be used again from within VISTA.
> It is beyond my comprehension what possible good this type of activity
> would do me, or any other VISTA user. After I get to the point where
> I've installed Lightroom/Photoshop/Picasa/PaperPort and other apps that
> routinely access and/or index GB of user files - will access to my D:
> drive ever stop? Why would Superfetch bother with non-executable data
> files on a non-system partition? After reading the MS VISTA Kernel
> description I know that turning off SuperFetch will impact certain > VISTA
> features - so what?.
>
>
> Second issue: I noticed a secondary disk activity that consists of
> continuous writes to various files on C: that occur at the rate of a > few
> each second. Again, I attempted to isolate that IO activity with
> Perfmon, including noting the PIDs and then attempting to stop the
> Applications with that PID - with no success.
>
> In an attempt to further diagnose the issues, I restored a C: partition
> backup for the first OOTB Vista configuration (no updates, drivers, > apps
> installed). The steady drone of repeated disk writes to C: also occurs
> in that base build. The disk writes involves areas such as:
>
> files lastalive0.dat and lastalive1.dat
> from svchost LocalSystemNetworkRestricted.
>
> c:\windows\system32\config\SOFTWARE
> c:\$Logfile (NTFS Volume Log)
> c:\windows\System32\config\DEFAULT
> from System
>
> This is my only Vista system, so I have none other to compare it to.
>
> I've turned off Indexing, turned off Defender, uninstalled AVG, turned
> off disk defrags, and disabled all items in the Scheduler - the C: disk
> activity goes on.
>
> I find all this disk IO activity unwanted, distracting, and possibly
> damaging to disk drive health in the long term. I don't understand why
> this type of activity should be necessary for a single-user desktop PC
> and why it is so darned difficult to determine what is causing it.
>
> I'd appreciate any assistance in explaining what this constant disk C:
> write activity might be, what other diagnostic tools I could use to
> isolate the causes, and how to stop it (other than to install WINXP or
> buy a Mac).
>
>

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