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    excessive drive access

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by AppleUsr, Feb 13, 2009.

  1. AppleUsr

    AppleUsr Notebook Deity

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    I have been reading around various forums and many of them including myself seem to have a similar problem with the pre installed windows vista on asus laptops. It seems as if there is excessive drive access from within windows vista.It does not happen with a clean install of xp and ive read a clean install of vista also does not exibit this. so it must be something installed with the recovery software that is causing it.

    Has anyone figured out what program that is causing this.
     
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    -=$tR|k3r=- Notebook Virtuoso

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    I can not say for certain, but I can tell you it's not just ASUS laptops exhibiting this behavior. I seen the same of HP's, Acer's, and desktops as well.

    I have yet to identify exactly which service(s) or process(es) are the culprit(s), but I have noticed a substantial reduction in calls to the HDD (seems to be constantly caching) when:
    1. all un-necessary services or processes are shutdown
    2. all un-necessary bloatware is removed
    3. the system does not sit idle-ly connected to a network.

    A tool I use that seems to help (regarding start-ups, processes, and services), and keeps me out of trouble is; The Ultimate Troubleshooter ( www.answersthatwork.com).

    I hope this helps. :)

    DO WE HAVE ANY EXPERTS OUT THERE? :D
     
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  3. dougbrad82

    dougbrad82 Notebook Consultant

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    probably you're referring to the superfetch service. to disable go to control panel, administrative tools, services, find superfetch and set to disable and then restart. hope this helps.
     
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    By golly, dougbrad82 may just have something here! :)

    Here is an interesting link on disabling or changing superfetch parameters:

    http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/wind...tch-to-only-cache-system-boot-files-in-vista/
     
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  5. dougbrad82

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    my personal recommendation is if you dont restart you laptop much (usually left on or on sleep) is to leave superfetch on. I turn it off, becuase I'm always restarting to diffent OS (vista, xp, ubuntu, osx) and having superfetch on adds about 10-12 seconds to my boot time.
     
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    also i recommended turing the indexer off, or just for it to be active in specific folders.
     
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    superfetch usually helps (at least when i still had vista), but indexing is useless, unless you care about slightly quicker searches... (start -> run -> services.msc).

    sometimes its the dvd drive, i dont remember what was causing it though (or the fix). to check, use diskmonitor ( http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896642.aspx) to match the light + reads/writes.

    then, if you know its the hdd, use filemon ( http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896642.aspx) to find what process is using it.

    good luck
     
    thalanix, Feb 13, 2009
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