Disable hard disk thrashing vista

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How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. In reply to SpiritX's post on February 5, Although I do seem to remember seeing teatimer on here somewhere Is that with any other program as well? This morning it is taking forever to actually stop thrashing enough to let me even type this properly I keep having to edit it!

Usually its just background noise. In reply to JH's post on February 6, I have also just tried uninstalling McAfee, but it still happens I've reinstalled it again Surely there is a program like DiskMon which easily monitors what is accessing the disk? In reply to SpiritX's post on February 6, HI, Spybot is not on this PC anymore, so it can't be that.

Yesterday with online help from McAfee I went thru their stuff, then uninstalled, reboot, reinstalled McAfee but to no avail. Virus Protection is still enabled. It did this yesterday, then thrashed again a while later This option seems like a duplication of downloading signatures, but appears to do it in real time.. If this is now quiet for a couple of days I will post here so others might see if it solves their problems as well.

I still have the Explorer crashing to look into now tho Is there a MS fix for this anywhere? Thanks J. In reply to JH's post on February 7, Hi, Explorer crashing could also be all or in part McAfee. In reply to SpiritX's post on February 7, Hi, I have uninstalled McAfee completely. I used the additional uninstaller which McAfee provides to remove the last remnants And I have now installed AVG..

Joined Dec 5, Messages Turning off indexing i believe will slow vista down a lot. Mine does it too, it seems to be the norm with vista. NoxTek The Geek Redneck. Joined May 27, Messages 9, There are two things you can do to curb Vista's constant HDD accessing behavior: 1.

You can turn indexing off, simply go into the administrative options control panel and launch the 'Services' applet. Now scroll down the list of services until you find 'Windows Search' and then double-click on it to open it's properties. Now click the 'Stop' button to stop the service from running, and then change the startup type to 'Disabled'. This will shut down the Windows Search service and all search indexing it does while your machine is idle.

The drawback to this is that file searching will take a lot longer than before since Windows Vista will no longer have a search index to rely on. If you never search for files on your computer you probably won't miss this much. On the other hand once you've had Vista up and running for a week or so the search indexes are built and the HDD thrashing goes away on it's own. You can disable SuperFetch. I don't recommend this if you use your Vista PC as a normal computer running everyday applications and games.

SuperFetch is what makes Vista so responsive and snappy because it constantly monitors your PC usage and keeps your most commonly used programs loaded in memory ready to launch. If you disable SuperFetch Vista will return to an XP-like way of doing things and a program will not be loaded into memory until you launch it. If you really do use this machine as purely an HTPC, then it may be advisable to disable superfetch since all you are doing is playing movies and watching TV.

Launch the 'Services' applet located in the Administrative Options control panel and double-click the 'Superfetch' service to access it's properties. Click the 'Stop' button to stop the Superfetch service immediately, and then change it's launch options to 'Disabled'. This will disable Vista's Superfetch caching scheme. Vista likes memory and on systems with under 2GB of memory it will constantly be accessing the swap file virtual memory.

Azhar Fixing stupid since Joined Jan 9, Messages 18, J4M3S0N79 Gawd. Joined Jul 25, Messages Azhar said:. Click to expand Jerome36 2[H]4U. Joined Jul 27, Messages 4, Doesn't Vista also defrag during periods of inactivity.