Heavy Disk Acvtivity when Restarting/Booting

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I am having an ongoing performance problem with Windows XP Pro on my 1.3GHz,
384MB laptop machine. Whenever I bring the system back to life after being
in standby (or whenever I do a cold boot) I finally get my desktop but then
the disk starts getting hit constantly for anywhere from 3 to 5 minutes ...
I don't have a clue what it's doing (or why). This is a problem that has
plagued me for some months now (maybe a year) ... I had kind of resigned
myself to the fact that it's just an idiosyncrasy of XP. After the 3-5
minutes disk gyrations the system seems to settle down and everything is OK.
Now I have run every system cleanup procedure I can think of ...virus scan,
SpyBot scan, defrag, disk clean up, etc. When it is in this state I have
looked at Windows Task Manager (ctrl-alt-del) Processes tab and I see one
instance of svchost and one of lsass whose disk read/write counts are
increasing fairly rapidly. I suspect that these are causing the heavy disk
activity I am seeing. I have gone to START > RUN > CMD and then tasklist
/svc and I get a long list of image names, PID's and services ... I see a
couple of instances of svchost and lsass and when I then do a tasklist /FI
"PID eq (pid number)" where (pid number is the PID number of an instance of
svchost or lsass all I get is the session name (it's always "Console") and
the memory usage of the svchost.exe or lsass.exe process.

Is there some way that I can get some meaningful information that will give
me a clue to what the system is doing during this venture off into
la-la-land when restarting?

Thanks.


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