Constantly Running HD on T60p w/ Vista

My new t60p is great, but the hard drive is constantly running. I have disabled superfetch, hard drive indexing and windows search yet it still is accessing even when surfing on the Internet...

Any idea guys, its kind of annoying?

 

Can you take it out?

 

Have you uninstalled Diskeeper Lite? Diskeeper does defragmentation in the background.

And also disable ReadyBoost.

 

yes diskeeper is gone along with pc doctor, ill try ready boost.

usually, the hd accessing stops after the pc has been on for like 5mins....

 

I had already disabled readyboost

 

Welcome to the wonderful world of Vista.

I'm running Vista U with 3GB of memory and it takes 3-4 mins of disk caching. Start up task manager and you'll see how programs are being loaded into memory. With 2GB of ram if I remember correctly you should be left with 150-300meg of memory depending on how many programs you have installed.

 

My physical memory ussage in task manager is only 845mb, your saying it could be 1.75bg?

 

79 processes running, its a gold awful slow OS sometimes but sometimes it is rather peppy. Nothing like XP though

 

"Seventy Nine" I only have between 40 processes running after everything loads. That's why you have slow down especially in Vista. When I received my T60 with XP Pro it had like 83 processes and it crawled.

My Physical Memory reads like this:
Total: 3069
Cached:1937
Free: 590

Kernal Memory:
Total: 111
Paged: 76
Nonpaged: 35

Page File
670M/6,326M

 

Mine says this,

Physical memory
Total:2045
Cached: 561
Free 770

Kernel memory
Total: 114
Paged: 54
Free:770

PF: 1026m/4312m

Is that good, bad i have no idea, I plan on getting a total of 3gb in this thing, any recommended sticks that will work no problems?

 

Using Vista Premium 32bit:

I did a new install from the partition, took out the programs i didnt want installed, yet i still have 86 processes running.

Physical Memory
Total 2533
Cached 1164
Free 553

Kernel Memory
Total 147
Paged 65
Nonpaged 82

Memory usage was much worst last night until i deleted everything from Prefetch and cleared out the Temp folder. Memory usage before that was over 1gb's just idling.

 

The fact you have 79 processes running and 2GB of ram means it's accessing the disk more than it should. I say that by looking at the 770MB of free memory. If it were a lower number it would mean it loaded more into memory initially and would speed up load times of apps when you launch them.

Remember that Vista uses lot's of memory to load things into cache so it's there when you need to launch programs etc. The old way in Windows XP was to generate a prefetch file pointer the next time you call that same app.

Vista now uses memory more aggressively to load programs. Don't worry about Vista running out of memory because it gives you back the memory if it no longer needs it.

I'm using 3GB and Vista is noticeably quicker.

p.s. I bought a 2GB Patriot stick from newegg for $109 after a $20 rebate. I tried Mushkin memory in my T60 and for some reason my T60 did not like it because programs would crash and I got BSOD on boot up. Since switching to Patriot ram the T60 runs solid.

 

I had a similar experience when I first booted my T60 out of the box. It came with Home Premium and was loaded down with extra processes even after I removed stuff. A fresh install helped noticeably, as well as disabling certain things (Windows Defender, automatic defrag). Turning off SuperFetch doesn't really do much (I don't think it's causing the problem anyway) as it still will use it to some degree. Also, might want to check which folders Vista is set to index, because if you constantly add and delete stuff from those folders then indexing will be working quite often.