Extensive Disk I/O for several minutes right after Boot Up

[Guest]

Hello

I have XP Home Edition loaded on a Gateway 650. Right after boot up, very heavy disk I/O continues for several minutes, to the point where say double clicking on Internet Explore the cursor hour glass does come up and it takes a minute or two before Internet Explorer comes up. Once the I/O ends, then performance is OK

I have scanned for viruses, there are none. I have scanned for spyware, which I did have, and it has been removed (using website www.spywareguide.com).

Suggestions

Thanks
Paige

 

[Kelly]

Hi Paige,

Run the Task Manager, go to View/Select Columns, and turn on the following
columns: "I/O Read Bytes" and "I/O Write Bytes." This will give you details
as to which process is accessing the disk.

Although many processes will be accessing the disk, look for one with a high
total or a fast rate of increase, especially when you hear the drive being
accessed.

Hard Disk Performance Is Slower Than You Expect
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q308219

Hello,

I have XP Home Edition loaded on a Gateway 650. Right after boot up, very

heavy disk I/O continues for several minutes, to the point where say double
clicking on Internet Explore the cursor hour glass does come up and it takes
a minute or two before Internet Explorer comes up. Once the I/O ends, then
performance is OK.

I have scanned for viruses, there are none. I have scanned for spyware,

which I did have, and it has been removed (using website
www.spywareguide.com).

 

[Guest]

Kelly

Thank you. By far the process with the highest Write I/O bytes was svchost.exe under SYSTEM, at 25.9 million. A distant second is updatestats.exe at 5.4 million write I/O bytes. The highest read bytes were 100,000 for NAVAPSVC.EXE. Is there a setting I need to change??

Thanks again for the quick reply
Paige

 

[Kelly]

Hi Paige,

The first one covers many grounds. Some are bogus, some not. More reading
here: http://tinyurl.com/2xrye. The second one is NAV.

Kelly,

Thank you. By far the process with the highest Write I/O bytes was

svchost.exe under SYSTEM, at 25.9 million. A distant second is
updatestats.exe at 5.4 million write I/O bytes. The highest read bytes were
100,000 for NAVAPSVC.EXE. Is there a setting I need to change???