New Vista laptop hard drive does not stop spinning

John · External Since: Mar 20, 2007 Posts: 1

Brand new Sony Laptop with 2 gigs of RAM and Solo Core U1500 1.33 GHZ CPU.
I can't seem to resolve the performance issue related to the hard drive
constantly spinning. I went to the Resource Monitor and see that the Disk
section is showing 100% highest Active time consistantly and it rarely drops
below this. I have tried MSCONFIG and performing a Selective startup and
not had any change in the issue. The only changes I have made were to add
TrendMicro 2007, Office 2007 and Quicken 2007. I have disabled any of
indexing too.

Any suggestions?

TIA

John

Carey Frisch [MVP] · External Since: Nov 18, 2006 Posts: 236

In the Run box type in SERVICES.MSC and click OK. Scroll down to
the SUPERFETCH service, right-click on it and select Properties, then
under Startup type select DISABLED and then click apply.

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User

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"John" wrote:

Brand new Sony Laptop with 2 gigs of RAM and Solo Core U1500 1.33 GHZ CPU.
I can't seem to resolve the performance issue related to the hard drive
constantly spinning. I went to the Resource Monitor and see that the Disk
section is showing 100% highest Active time consistantly and it rarely drops
below this. I have tried MSCONFIG and performing a Selective startup and
not had any change in the issue. The only changes I have made were to add
TrendMicro 2007, Office 2007 and Quicken 2007. I have disabled any of
indexing too.

Any suggestions?

TIA

John

Skeet1983 · External Since: Mar 20, 2007 Posts: 1

I am having similiar trouble: I just installed Vista Home Basic on my laptop
and the hard drive light on my laptop is constantly lit. Is this the same
problem?

System Specs:

- Intel P4 3.0GHz
- 1GB RAM
- 64MB video memory

Ken Zhao [MSFT] · External Since: Jan 25, 2007 Posts: 142

Hello John,

Thank you for using newsgroup!

From your post, I'd like to thanks our MVP Carey Frisch for his great
information sharing. For more related information, please refer to:

Windows PC Accelerators: Performance Technology for Windows Vista
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/sysperf/accelerator.mspx

Windows Administration: Inside the Windows Vista Kernel: Part 2
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2007/03/VistaKernel/defau
lt.aspx?loc=en

Thanks & Regards,

Ken Zhao

Microsoft Online Support
Microsoft Global Technical Support Center

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| "John" wrote:
|
| Brand new Sony Laptop with 2 gigs of RAM and Solo Core U1500 1.33 GHZ
CPU.
| I can't seem to resolve the performance issue related to the hard drive
| constantly spinning. I went to the Resource Monitor and see that the
Disk
| section is showing 100% highest Active time consistantly and it rarely
drops
| below this. I have tried MSCONFIG and performing a Selective startup and
| not had any change in the issue. The only changes I have made were to
add
| TrendMicro 2007, Office 2007 and Quicken 2007. I have disabled any of
| indexing too.
|
| Any suggestions?
|
|
| TIA
|
|
| John
|
|
|