z61p and Vista Startup

[mtommy]

Hello all,
On wednesdy I got my new z61p t7200 with Windows Vista Buisiness.
I'll explain my issue:
When I turn on my laptop, everything seems to be totally loaded (system tray and all the application at the startup), but the harddisk keeps on working like a mad for 5-10 minutes without any break. After that it stops, and the system run fine.
I've noticed that the moment in which the harddisk stop working, coincides with 2 event in the app evtlog:

Source LoadPerf IdEvent 1000 and 1001.
The description tells that some counters of the service WMIApRpl has been removed and then loaded again.

Do you think that this is and hardware issue, or just Windows Vista problem? Do you have any feedback?

Thanks a lot
Best regards

Tommy

[mtommy]

P.s.

This issue, seems to start after I put my machine in a domain. I've already tried to use the recovery disk and reinstall everything, but , again, as soon as I configure my domain, I start to have this problem.

[steveh]

This hard disk activity unfortunately is normal for Vista. This is Vistas indexing, and has nothing to do with joining a domain. The only way to eliminate this is to turn off the indexing, but this is a helpful function and enables instant search (really instant) on your computer. If your ThinkPad also shipped with Google desktop (as some factory installs of Vista do) I would remove Google desktop as this is redundant with Vistas search function and will make the disk activity even more intensive.

BTW, lovely city where you live. I miss visiting there.

Steve

[duffy]

As Steve said this is normal for Vista. In addition to indexing Vista is also caching data into memory for quick access to frequently used files and programs.

[mtommy]

Hello all and thanks for all your replay.
The situation is a bit strange, because, as I've said, after 5-10 minutes of REALLY STRONG activity of the disk, it get much much better and quite normal.
Anyway if you think it's normal then it's ok.

Another question:
which are the reg key to disable the performance counters, and which word I have to add?

Thanks a lot

Tommy