Windows Vista Hard Disk Access

Mista.Gee · 6 Apr 2007 at 17:03

I've had Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate running for about a month now with absolute no problems what so ever but i've noticed upon every restart after login there is a lot of hard disk drive activity for the first say 10 mins PC is still useable during Vista Accessing the Hard Disk Drive.

I have everything up to date Kaspersky also up to date and have very little running at startup apart from MSN messenger and internet.

Anyone have any ideas what's causing Vista to access the hard disk drive intensely at every login for around 10 mins approx.

Thanks.

v0n · 6 Apr 2007 at 17:07

Use search, there was at least 5 threads about it

bledd · 6 Apr 2007 at 17:09

go to task manager and see what's using most cpu (you'd assume that it would show up there)

probably windows defender or something, perhaps indexing service

disable the defender real-time scanning in the defender options

NathanE · 6 Apr 2007 at 17:28

Immediately after boot Vista will begin sucking up all the recently accessed data on your hard drive and bung it into memory. This is called "Superfetch" and it increases the "seamless performance" of your desktop quite dramatically.

I'm running Vista on 4GB of memory and approximately 1.8GB is currently in use solely by the Superfetch function. Very cool. I played C&C 3 last night and if I went to load it now there would be very little hard disk activity.