Vista HDD Activity

Why is is so that ever since I have been running Vista Ultimate my HDD led
runs almost non stop. I have disabled Superfetch, Indexing and Defrag just
to name a few in a vain attempt to track down why this happens.

It appears to be normal with some but not all Vista installations. Before
Vista came along this sort of activity would ring alarm bells. The System
and Performance monitor shows it is updating system files but why does it
need to do it 100% of the time. Hard drives are NOT built with a 100% duty
cycle in mind.

I need some knowledgable person who knows the complete answer to this
problem.

Regards
Lee

Lee Asher wrote:

> I need some knowledgable person who knows the complete answer to this
> problem.

What about yourself? Using the MS Sysinternals ProcessMonitor you can make
a realtime trace of all file/Registry/network/process activity on your pc
(on a per process basis).
With this information you should be able to identify the "culprit" easily.

Robert

Task Manager (Ctrl + Shift + Escape). Add I/O to the columns (View - Select
Columns) on the Process tab. Then sort by IO

"Lee Asher" <> wrote in message
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> Why is is so that ever since I have been running Vista Ultimate my HDD led
> runs almost non stop. I have disabled Superfetch, Indexing and Defrag just
> to name a few in a vain attempt to track down why this happens.
>
> It appears to be normal with some but not all Vista installations. Before
> Vista came along this sort of activity would ring alarm bells. The System
> and Performance monitor shows it is updating system files but why does it
> need to do it 100% of the time. Hard drives are NOT built with a 100% duty
> cycle in mind.
>
> I need some knowledgable person who knows the complete answer to this
> problem.
>
> Regards
> Lee
>

Task Manager (Ctrl + Shift + Escape). Add I/O to the columns (View - Select
Columns) on the Process tab. Then sort by IO

"Lee Asher" <> wrote in message
news:%...
> Why is is so that ever since I have been running Vista Ultimate my HDD led
> runs almost non stop. I have disabled Superfetch, Indexing and Defrag just
> to name a few in a vain attempt to track down why this happens.
>
> It appears to be normal with some but not all Vista installations. Before
> Vista came along this sort of activity would ring alarm bells. The System
> and Performance monitor shows it is updating system files but why does it
> need to do it 100% of the time. Hard drives are NOT built with a 100% duty
> cycle in mind.
>
> I need some knowledgable person who knows the complete answer to this
> problem.
>
> Regards
> Lee
>

Lee, I found that going to hard drive "Properties" and unchecking the
"Allow indexing" box made a difference. This activity is supposed to
"Subside" after a while but in my case it never seemed to.

Lee Asher wrote:
> Why is is so that ever since I have been running Vista Ultimate my HDD
> led runs almost non stop. I have disabled Superfetch, Indexing and
> Defrag just to name a few in a vain attempt to track down why this happens.
>
> It appears to be normal with some but not all Vista installations.
> Before Vista came along this sort of activity would ring alarm bells.
> The System and Performance monitor shows it is updating system files but
> why does it need to do it 100% of the time. Hard drives are NOT built
> with a 100% duty cycle in mind.
>
> I need some knowledgable person who knows the complete answer to this
> problem.
>
> Regards
> Lee
>

"Charlie Tame" <> wrote in message
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> Lee, I found that going to hard drive "Properties" and unchecking the
> "Allow indexing" box made a difference. This activity is supposed to
> "Subside" after a while but in my case it never seemed to.
>

Re-read his post. He already disabled Indexing.


> Lee Asher wrote:
>> Why is is so that ever since I have been running Vista Ultimate my HDD
>> led runs almost non stop. I have disabled Superfetch, Indexing and Defrag
>> just to name a few in a vain attempt to track down why this happens.
>>
>> It appears to be normal with some but not all Vista installations. Before
>> Vista came along this sort of activity would ring alarm bells. The System
>> and Performance monitor shows it is updating system files but why does it
>> need to do it 100% of the time. Hard drives are NOT built with a 100%
>> duty cycle in mind.
>>
>> I need some knowledgable person who knows the complete answer to this
>> problem.
>>
>> Regards
>> Lee
>>