Re: Disk Drive going constantly since upgrading to Vista

When I had outlook 2003 installed on vista rtm, I noticed a lof of disk
activity. After upgrading to 2007, it was better.


"John Bailey" <> wrote in message
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> Thanks for the tip! No the indexer doesn't appear to be the culprit. It
> would appear to be related to the My Documents redirection. The documents
> in
> my documents folder appear to be constantly synchronizing with the server
> even though they are already synchronized and available offline.
>
> Is there an issue with My Documents redirection in Windows Vista? Or
> maybe
> there is a trick to how I'm supposed to do it?
>
> "Jason Hanford-Smith" wrote:
>
>> Could it be the indexer?
>>
>> Take a look at the disk section in the Reliability and Performance
>> Monitor
>> (type Reliability in the Start menu Search). It'll tell what's doing the
>> reading and writing and to which file(s).
>>
>> --Jason
>>
>> "John Bailey" wrote:
>>
>> > Okay, since upgrading my Windows XP Tablet pc to Windows Vista I've
>> > noticed
>> > that my disk drive seems to be going constantly. The machine is a dual
>> > core
>> > 1.7 gig tablet with 2 gig of ram. The ram usage hasn't gone over 50%
>> > (which
>> > is still higher than under XP, but I had expected that). I cannot
>> > figure out
>> > what could be causing the disk activity as the only processes running
>> > that
>> > are using CPU are iexplorer.exe, dwm.exe, sidebar.exe, and accasionally
>> > System and svchost.exe.
>> >
>> > Is anyone else seeing this behavior?