Vista installed on my T42, harddisk always busy

[Msmax]

I have installed Vista on my T42 machine without any problems. All hardware is automatically detected and works fine.

However I noticed that the harddisk is activated very often.

Any one else have this problem too?

Have 2Gb memory in the machine.

Msmax

[clarksonknights]

Vista is indexing. Leave your computer on overnight and your problem should be fixed.

[Msmax]

Thanks.

Can this indexing be switched off?
What is the use of this function?

Regards, Msmax

[wordup48]

You can turn it off, but I recommend to leave it because it helps with the built-in Vista search function. Makes it nice to have everything at the tip of your fingers I think.

[sr. Technician]

Apparently for some users it can take 2-3 weeks. After that, it gets somewhat smoother.

[waynesdukeess]

I had same problem, it seemed better after a few weeks.I trimed
unneeded processes down from 55 to 42 a little help( XPsp2 was
22). A big help was changing Win Defender default setting for
scanning from daily at 2am( if computer off scannned when start-
up) to weekly and only OS drive windows.

MS put sys config in Admin to make easy to control start up programs .


Have cpu and memory gages on sidebar, cpu still hits 80-100%
and memory at 400-500M I guss this norm for VISTA.

T23 680MB ram

SOYO P-4 2gigHz 2Gig ram

luck,

[Temetka]

2 weeks!?!

Spotlight indexing on my powerbook g4 @ 1GHz only took around 3 hours. That was on a nearly full 100gb hd!

Jeebuz, 2 weeks to create a list files and there locations?

No thank you. Can this be turned off?

[Msmax]

Any one please explain how to swith this function off.
Driving me nuts to hear the harddisk rattling while I'm doing nothing spectacular on the machine...

I do not need indexing service or so, I know where I store my files myself...

Thanks for your help, Msmax

[rvacha]

The indexer doesn't take several weeks, just several hours. My guess is that what you are hearing is SuperFetch pre-fetching apps and data it anticipates you will be using soon. After it learns your habits - this could take several weeks - it'll settle down a little.

How much DRAM do you have? Are you using ReadyBoost?

Another possibility is the indexer in Outlook 2007 if you have that. That will rattle your drive everytime you send, receive, delete, etc an E-mail, move folders, and contacts, etc

[clarksonknights]

To turn off indexing...

Search for "index" and hit enter. Indexing Options should have opened up. Just go and delete which folders you don't want indexed. If you want it completely off, delete all folders.

I find indexing very useful and I'm sure many others do. Sort of changes the way you use your computer. So my recommendation would be to leave it enabled.

[warder]

My hard drive has never gone to sleep since I installed Vista... and it's not the indexing etc either, although that does run a lot.

The ATi drivers write (save) a profile XML configuration file periodically and something in Vista writes another file periodically too.

I have used Process Monitor to dig deeper hence knowing about the ATi profile issue, but the other one I cannot work out. It looks like something is writing to the event log once a minute, but not quite.

If you watch disk writes in the Resource Monitor, you can see what is being read and written to the drive too, and the file is lastalive0.dat and lastalive1.dat. Process Monitor points to a service with a call stack of an event log write, but nothing shows in the event log.

All very weird, but these disk writes at 1 minute intervals effectively stop the drive from ever sleeping. Great for battery life!


Does anyone else suffer from this?

[Msmax]

Back to XP I guess.

This unsollicited harddrive access really annoys me. When I'm back from my holidays I will reinstall XP on this machine. Nice and clean.

Thanks all for your help, Msmax

[ghosh9691]

FLTMGR.SYS is the Microsoft File System Filter Manager. I am not sure why this is running on your machine, but generally this is turned off.

To do this, do the following:
- Hit the Windows key + R to bring up the run dialog
- Launch the registry editor (regedit.exe)
- Navigate to the following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services
- Scroll down the list to the FltMgr entry.
- On the right side, look at the value for "Start". It should say "0". If not, then this is your problem. Set the value to "0" and reboot your computer.

Hopefully, this will take care of it. One question: did you do a clean install of Win Vista or upgrade from Win XP?

[bopchie]

the 2 most easiest ways to stop indexing is the same 2 ways we did it on XP.

1. type services.msc in run, then find "Indexing service" right click it then dissable....now just apply it and stop the service...it will never start again unless you re-enable it.

2. right click on your HDD and click properties....uncheck "allow indexing" and apply.

I have never used indexing....its all user preference, if you do alot of searches then its better to keep it enabled but if not then kill it and kill windows search also.