after opening a folder

I have noticed that after doing something as simple as opening a folder,
there is 15-30 seconds of intermittant writing to the drive. I disabled
indexing but that did not help. How can one stop or limit that intermittant
writing to the drive?

"b11_" <> wrote in message
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>I have noticed that after doing something as simple as opening a folder,
> there is 15-30 seconds of intermittant writing to the drive. I disabled
> indexing but that did not help. How can one stop or limit that
> intermittant
> writing to the drive?

Power down the PC and the intermittant writing will stop :-)

What does it matter if there is disk activity? The OS is doing many things
behind the scene. Don't worry about it unless the activity chews up 70% +
of your CPU for an extended amount of time.

It depends on what you have stored in the folder, if you have lot videos or
images, then you are likely to see a significant increase in CPU utilization,
since it has to do things like render image and video previews.
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"b11_" wrote:

> I have noticed that after doing something as simple as opening a folder,
> there is 15-30 seconds of intermittant writing to the drive. I disabled
> indexing but that did not help. How can one stop or limit that intermittant
> writing to the drive?

But after doing something as simple as opening a window, _then_ there is
15-30 seconds of intermittant _WRITING_-to-disk. Only essential services are
running, the start folder is empty, and task scheduler is disabled.
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"Andre Da Costa [ActiveWin]" wrote:

> It depends on what you have stored in the folder, if you have lot videos or
> images, then you are likely to see a significant increase in CPU utilization,
> since it has to do things like render image and video previews.
> --
> Andre
> Blog | http://adacosta.spaces.live.com
> My Windows Vista Quick Start Guide:
> http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog...3DB!9709.entry
>
>
> "b11_" wrote:
>
> > I have noticed that after doing something as simple as opening a folder,
> > there is 15-30 seconds of intermittant writing to the drive. I disabled
> > indexing but that did not help. How can one stop or limit that intermittant
> > writing to the drive?

b11_;576972 Wrote:
> I have noticed that after doing something as simple as opening a folder,
> there is 15-30 seconds of intermittant writing to the drive. I disabled
> indexing but that did not help. How can one stop or limit that
> intermittant
> writing to the drive?

Hi b11,

See if after doing these to help improve the performance of Vista, if
it opens quicker for you.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/81...nce-vista.html

Shawn


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I am trying to find-out why there is intermittant writing to disk after doing
something as simple as opening a window on the desktop. The writing-to-disk
happens under Vista and Wxp but not under W98. Only essential services are
running. It is a mystery.
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"Brink" wrote:

>
> b11_;576972 Wrote:
> > I have noticed that after doing something as simple as opening a folder,
> > there is 15-30 seconds of intermittant writing to the drive. I disabled
> > indexing but that did not help. How can one stop or limit that
> > intermittant
> > writing to the drive?
>
> Hi b11,
>
> See if after doing these to help improve the performance of Vista, if
> it opens quicker for you.
>
> http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/81...nce-vista.html
>
> Shawn
>
>
> --
> Brink
>
> *There are no dumb questions, just the people that do not ask them.*
> '*Vista Forums*'
> (http://www.vistax64.com/index.php?referrerid=2980)
> *Please post feedback to help others.*
>

b11_;624201 Wrote:
> I am trying to find-out why there is intermittant writing to disk after
> doing
> something as simple as opening a window on the desktop. The
> writing-to-disk
> happens under Vista and Wxp but not under W98. Only essential services
> are
> running. It is a mystery.
> __________________________________________________ ______________
>
> "Brink" wrote:
> > > >
> > >
> > > b11_;576972 Wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi b11,
> > >
> > > See if after doing these to help improve the performance of Vista, if
> > > it opens quicker for you.
> > >
> > >
> > http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/81...nce-vista.html
> > >
> > > Shawn
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Brink
> > >
> > > *There are no dumb questions, just the people that do not ask them.*
> > > '*Vista Forums*'
> > > (http://www.vistax64.com/index.php?referrerid=2980)
> > > *Please post feedback to help others.*
> > > > >

B11,

It can be a number of things that cause it to write for a bit. For
example: Superfetch loading data to memory, Index updating the search
index, Vista reading icons from the icon cache in the opened window,
etc......

Hope this helps,
Shawn


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Indexing is disabled.

What I have observed is intermittant _WRITING_, not reading, to disk.

I'll disable superfetch and see what happens.
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"Brink" wrote:

>
> b11_;624201 Wrote:
> > I am trying to find-out why there is intermittant writing to disk after
> > doing
> > something as simple as opening a window on the desktop. The
> > writing-to-disk
> > happens under Vista and Wxp but not under W98. Only essential services
> > are
> > running. It is a mystery.
> > __________________________________________________ ______________
> >
> > "Brink" wrote:
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > b11_;576972 Wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi b11,
> > > >
> > > > See if after doing these to help improve the performance of Vista, if
> > > > it opens quicker for you.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/81...nce-vista.html
> > > >
> > > > Shawn
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Brink
> > > >
> > > > *There are no dumb questions, just the people that do not ask them.*
> > > > '*Vista Forums*'
> > > > (http://www.vistax64.com/index.php?referrerid=2980)
> > > > *Please post feedback to help others.*
> > > > > >
>
> B11,
>
> It can be a number of things that cause it to write for a bit. For
> example: Superfetch loading data to memory, Index updating the search
> index, Vista reading icons from the icon cache in the opened window,
> etc......
>
> Hope this helps,
> Shawn
>
>
> --
> Brink
>
> *There are no dumb questions, just the people that do not ask them.*
> '*Vista Forums*'
> (http://www.vistax64.com/index.php?referrerid=2980)
> *Please post feedback to help others.*
>