Hard Drive Constantly Accessing

[Miller88]

I just installed Vista on the T60. I have almost constant hard drive accessing.

Indexing is disabled
I'm using around 50% of memory

[michaelk]

i'm new to both thinkpad and vista but numerous things I saw on the web was just leave it on for a couple nights and vista will do whatever the hell it is doing and then it will go away.

I found that to be true myself. The frist few days it was painfull how slow my new T61 was acting- once it got all the thrashing out of it's system all was well.

Honestly I haven't a clue what the hell it's doing but it does eventually stop.

good luck.


(ps there's some other thing it does trying to anticipate what you might want in memory next- perhaps that's what is doing it if indexing is turned off...

[jdhurst]

I have posted about this before (XP not Vista).

Turn off the computer. Turn it back on and wait for 5 minutes. Then search for all files altered "today". Once done, sort the newest ones to the top. See what they are and that should provide a clue as to what is going on. This test is best done first thing in the morning to reduce extraneous files.
... JDH

[Kyocera]

i've posted about this too, with my machine that is running vista ultimate with diskeeper, sometimes diskeeper kicks in and runs for a while, unless you've removed it or disabled it.


search
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=43614

[warder]

Indexing is not the only thing that runs:

- Windows Defender scans the whole drive for spyware every time the definitions are updated

- Defragmenter runs once a week

- Superfetch loads files into memory every time you close a program, guessing what you'll run next based on previous choices.


Use Task Manager/Performance/Resource Monitor/Disk to see what is actually happening.

[furrycute]

Type services.msc in run command. Disable the "Windows Search" service. Disabling this service only disables the indexing function of Vista, you'll still be able to do a normal non-indexed search.

My computer feels considerably faster after I disabled this service. And the hard drive access light hardly comes on anymore.

[michaelk]

seems the consensus is the windows indexed search is evil and should be shut off?

I was under the impression that once it indexed all the new stuff you load up on a new PC that it settles down and only indexes the occasional changed file here and there. And also i think it either filters what it indexes or you can can set it to filter only certain file types?

I did a search the other day and was AMAZED that I got back results like instantly- literally instantly. I have 50gb of files on my laptop at the moment. The first few days after i moved everything over it WAS painful but right now I think it's plenty fast. So to me it seemed well worth the initial sluggishness for the new functionality. As i read other places it seems I just had to leave it running overnight a few days and it worked out all that initial indexing. Am I missing something?