Disc Activity

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Colin Grant

Does anybody know what this incessant disc activity is? Its driving me nuts!

I've seen posts about it but have not seen an answer. The activity is not
all the time but I can't get through a session without it :-(

Thanks
Colin
 
Colin Grant said:
Does anybody know what this incessant disc activity is? Its driving me nuts!

I've seen posts about it but have not seen an answer. The activity is not all the time but I
can't get through a session without it :-(
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Vista's defrag could be running in the background.
Turn off the automatic/scheduled defrag.

-Michael
 
Does anybody know what this incessant disc activity is? Its driving me
nuts!

I've seen posts about it but have not seen an answer. The activity is not
all the time but I can't get through a session without it :-(

Thanks
Colin
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Probably the indexing. It takes a lot in the beginning.
 
Colin Grant said:
Does anybody know what this incessant disc activity is? Its driving me
nuts!
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Other responses to your post have speculated about the defragmenter and
indexer, which may well be correct, but Vista includes spiffy new
instrumentation tools which allow you to discover for sure what's causing
the activity on your machine:
Press Start, type "perfmon", press enter, continue through UAC prompt, and
click the down arrow next to "Disk" on the right. This will show you all of
the files on your machine which are currently being read or written (their
names are in the "File" column), and for each file, which program is
accessing it (names under the "Image") column.
Click "Read (B/min)", and they'll all be sorted by current read speed, and
press "Write (B/min)" to sort by write speed.
If your disk is thrashing, look at which files have the top read and write
speeds, and look at the program names, and you'll see what's thrashing your
disk.
 
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