Constant Disk Use in Windows Vista?

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Have recently installed a new copy of Windows Vista Home Premium 32bit on 1 30gb partition of a 74gb Western Digital Raptor (newer 16mb version). After a few problems (Vista died when I started overclocking cpu so I had to reinstall) its working ok.

However I just hear the hard drive working most of the time - not thrashing but the odd access every 2-3 secs. I dont think its the drive as I dual boot with XP and thats not installed on this drive. When in XP I cant hear the drive in use.

On this 2nd install its also taken 4gb + extra disk space. When I check whats using that extra space I see the following files at root:

http://www.p1f.co.uk/root.jpg

Also more worrying when I check task manager under Performance Tab -> Physical Memory I see:

Total: 2046mb
Cached: 1434mb (this never seems to change)
Free: 30

Spec is as per sig.

Anyone got any ideas?

Cheers,
Simon
 
The memory usage is just Superfetch and is totally normal. It won't adversely affect performance.

Regarding the HDD access, try turning off Windows Defender's on demand scanner, and possibly Indexing Service too. I found my HDD activity dropped a hell of a lot when I did.
 
burnsy2023 said:
:rolleyes:

Like has been said, the memory is Superfetch and the HDD is most likely Indexing.

Burnsy
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yep its most likely this.

on a seperate note, i dont understand people who dont like vista because its seeming to be using up all the memory, personally i'd rather have mine do something than be able to say "check this out, i have X amount of memory free all the time" ..whats the point when its not actually doing anything?

hiberfil.sys = where it stores your system state when you hibernate
pagefile.sys is your pagefile
 
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