- A lot of disk activities
- Posted by Ed on October 31st, 2005
Whatever I do, there is a lot of this activities on my machine. Like:
- During boot. Before and after login screen appears
- After I login (for several minutes)
- When I cahnge user and login to new account (for several minutes)
- When I start any program (e.g. IE). The disk activity is a alot more than
other machine I have seen.
- Every so often even when I am not doing anything (for few seconds)
I have Norton anti-virus and firewall which are kept up-to-date data. I ran
up-to-date AdAware at least once every week.
I have a Sony laptop. XP Pro, 512 MB. 2 partition on the same disk. The OS
drive (C
has 3 GB free and 10.5 GB used. Drive D: has 5 GB free and 13.5
GB used. Pagefile is on drive D:
Thanks in advance for your help.
- Posted by Andrew E. on October 31st, 2005
Simply open task mgr and see whats running,if in dought about the service
or program,write it down,then run search in my computer to see what it
is.
"Ed" wrote:
> Whatever I do, there is a lot of this activities on my machine. Like:
>
> - During boot. Before and after login screen appears
> - After I login (for several minutes)
> - When I cahnge user and login to new account (for several minutes)
> - When I start any program (e.g. IE). The disk activity is a alot more than
> other machine I have seen.
> - Every so often even when I am not doing anything (for few seconds)
>
> I have Norton anti-virus and firewall which are kept up-to-date data. I ran
> up-to-date AdAware at least once every week.
>
> I have a Sony laptop. XP Pro, 512 MB. 2 partition on the same disk. The OS
> drive (C has 3 GB free and 10.5 GB used. Drive D: has 5 GB free and 13.5
> GB used. Pagefile is on drive D:
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
>
>
- Posted by steam3801 on October 31st, 2005
On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:53:29 -0600, "Ed" <Please@noemail.tks> - in a
blinding flash of brilliance - wrote:
>Whatever I do, there is a lot of this activities on my machine. Like:
>
>- During boot. Before and after login screen appears
>- After I login (for several minutes)
>- When I cahnge user and login to new account (for several minutes)
>- When I start any program (e.g. IE). The disk activity is a alot more than
>other machine I have seen.
>- Every so often even when I am not doing anything (for few seconds)
>
>I have Norton anti-virus and firewall which are kept up-to-date data. I ran
>up-to-date AdAware at least once every week.
>
>I have a Sony laptop. XP Pro, 512 MB. 2 partition on the same disk. The OS
>drive (C has 3 GB free and 10.5 GB used. Drive D: has 5 GB free and 13.5
>GB used. Pagefile is on drive D:
>
>Thanks in advance for your help.
>
1. Clean out your cache (IE -> Internet Options -> Temp Int Files ->
Delete Files (incl Offline Content)
2. Disk cleanup (2xclick My Computer -> rt click C drive -> Properties
-> Disk Cleanup, tick *EVERYTHING*, and OK
2a. What programs are set to start up when you turn on? Do you really
need them all running in the background, sucking up resources. Start
-> Run -> msconfig <Enter> -> Startup .. which ones can you untick.
Also check what's in your Startup folder in Start -> Programs. Google
search the ones your unsure of.
3. Compact your email files (procedure varies between OE and Outlook)
4. Run Diskcheck (Tools options in above C drive process) - needs
reboot to complete
5. Run Defragmenation (Tools optios in above C process) - be prepared,
if you haven't done it for a while, it will take hours (e.g. leave it
running overnight). No other activity on computer while it's happening
(Additional reco : When Norton AV expires, *DON'T* renew it - well
documented history of conflicts betwen NAV and XP. Many problems have
been solved after ppl remove NAV from an XP machine! NAV is a resource
(CPU and RAM) hogger, leaving little resources for other software,
consequently your computer will have to work its guts out to do just
the simplest task, like load up.
--
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- Posted by Gerry Cornell on October 31st, 2005
Ed
An observation. I am not clear whether you have two partitions on one
hard drive or two hard drives. If you only have only one hard drive
place the pagefile on the second partition is contrary to recommended
practice.
http://aumha.org/a/parts.htm
Task Manager is useful but you could look at another freeware utility
Process Explorer, which provides similar information but adds that
little bit extra towards seeing what the running processes represent.
For further information about Process Explorer see here:
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/fr.../procexp.shtml
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Hope this helps.
Gerry
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"Ed" <Please@noemail.tks> wrote in message
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> Whatever I do, there is a lot of this activities on my machine. Like:
>
> - During boot. Before and after login screen appears
> - After I login (for several minutes)
> - When I cahnge user and login to new account (for several minutes)
> - When I start any program (e.g. IE). The disk activity is a alot more
> than other machine I have seen.
> - Every so often even when I am not doing anything (for few seconds)
>
> I have Norton anti-virus and firewall which are kept up-to-date data.
> I ran up-to-date AdAware at least once every week.
>
> I have a Sony laptop. XP Pro, 512 MB. 2 partition on the same disk.
> The OS drive (C has 3 GB free and 10.5 GB used. Drive D: has 5 GB
> free and 13.5 GB used. Pagefile is on drive D:
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
- Posted by steam3801 on October 31st, 2005
On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 10:15:41 -0000, "Gerry Cornell"
<gcjc@tenretnitb.com> - in a blinding flash of brilliance - wrote:
>Ed
>
>An observation. I am not clear whether you have two partitions on one
>hard drive or two hard drives. If you only have only one hard drive
>place the pagefile on the second partition is contrary to recommended
>practice.
>http://aumha.org/a/parts.htm
>
>Task Manager is useful but you could look at another freeware utility
>Process Explorer, which provides similar information but adds that
>little bit extra towards seeing what the running processes represent.
>
>For further information about Process Explorer see here:
>
>http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/fr.../procexp.shtml
That's the one!! Couldn't think of the name, and too lazy to trawl
Sysinternals to find it .....
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- Posted by Gerry Cornell on October 31st, 2005
steam3801
I am regularly having a blinding flash of brilliance <g>.
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Gerry
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> On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 10:15:41 -0000, "Gerry Cornell"
> <gcjc@tenretnitb.com> - in a blinding flash of brilliance - wrote:
>
>>Ed
>>
>>An observation. I am not clear whether you have two partitions on one
>>hard drive or two hard drives. If you only have only one hard drive
>>place the pagefile on the second partition is contrary to recommended
>>practice.
>>http://aumha.org/a/parts.htm
>>
>>Task Manager is useful but you could look at another freeware utility
>>Process Explorer, which provides similar information but adds that
>>little bit extra towards seeing what the running processes represent.
>>
>>For further information about Process Explorer see here:
>>
>>http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/fr.../procexp.shtml
>
> That's the one!! Couldn't think of the name, and too lazy to trawl
> Sysinternals to find it .....
>
> --
> steam3801
> ASCII a silly question, get a silly ANSI
