hard drive gets hammered upon logon

What is with Vista B2 hammering the disk right after logon for 2-4 mins? I have a Dell XPS 600 3.0Ghz Dual Core Pent D 2 GIG RAM 60GIG 10K SATA drive on an nForce4 motherboard .... I mean, this is a rockin' computer and it's just getting hammered so much the first 2-4 mins I literally can't do anything because if I do I'm sitting here waiting anyways while the system catches up. I do notice that DWM.EXE is running and using some processor while it's happening?!??! anyone know what is causing this and if it's a bug or by design or what??? Thx! Billy

What is with Vista B2 hammering the disk right after logon for 2-4 mins? I have a Dell XPS 600 3.0Ghz Dual Core Pent D 2 GIG RAM 60GIG 10K SATA drive on an nForce4 motherboard .... I mean, this is a rockin' computer and it's just getting hammered so much the first 2-4 mins I literally can't do anything because if I do I'm sitting here waiting anyways while the system catches up. I do notice that DWM.EXE is running and using some processor while it's happening?!??! anyone know what is causing this and if it's a bug or by design or what??? Thx! Billy

See if Dfrgntfs is running, new system performance setup in vista seems to have an auto schedual that, for me, started within first 5min after a clean install.
"Tester_Billy" wrote:

What is with Vista B2 hammering the disk right after logon for 2-4 mins? I have a Dell XPS 600 3.0Ghz Dual Core Pent D 2 GIG RAM 60GIG 10K SATA drive on an nForce4 motherboard .... I mean, this is a rockin' computer and it's just getting hammered so much the first 2-4 mins I literally can't do anything because if I do I'm sitting here waiting anyways while the system catches up. I do notice that DWM.EXE is running and using some processor while it's happening?!??! anyone know what is causing this and if it's a bug or by design or what??? Thx! Billy

nope, didn't see that process when i sorted by name. Usually I sort by CPU to see what's goin on, but all I see mostly is the DWM.EXE & SVCHOST.EXE running at lot during the first 2-4 mins while the HD is getting hit. What could be going on? No way to tell what's hitting the hard drive?
"RanoVA1916" wrote:

See if Dfrgntfs is running, new system performance setup in vista seems to have an auto schedual that, for me, started within first 5min after a clean install.
"Tester_Billy" wrote:
What is with Vista B2 hammering the disk right after logon for 2-4 mins? I have a Dell XPS 600 3.0Ghz Dual Core Pent D 2 GIG RAM 60GIG 10K SATA drive on an nForce4 motherboard .... I mean, this is a rockin' computer and it's just getting hammered so much the first 2-4 mins I literally can't do anything because if I do I'm sitting here waiting anyways while the system catches up. I do notice that DWM.EXE is running and using some processor while it's happening?!??! anyone know what is causing this and if it's a bug or by design or what??? Thx! Billy

Go to Control Panel | System and Maintenance | Administrative Tools and run Performance Diagnostic Console.
"Tester_Billy" wrote:

nope, didn't see that process when i sorted by name. Usually I sort by CPU to see what's goin on, but all I see mostly is the DWM.EXE & SVCHOST.EXE running at lot during the first 2-4 mins while the HD is getting hit. What could be going on? No way to tell what's hitting the hard drive?
"RanoVA1916" wrote:
See if Dfrgntfs is running, new system performance setup in vista seems to have an auto schedual that, for me, started within first 5min after a clean install.
"Tester_Billy" wrote:
What is with Vista B2 hammering the disk right after logon for 2-4 mins? I have a Dell XPS 600 3.0Ghz Dual Core Pent D 2 GIG RAM 60GIG 10K SATA drive on an nForce4 motherboard .... I mean, this is a rockin' computer and it's just getting hammered so much the first 2-4 mins I literally can't do anything because if I do I'm sitting here waiting anyways while the system catches up. I do notice that DWM.EXE is running and using some processor while it's happening?!??! anyone know what is causing this and if it's a bug or by design or what??? Thx! Billy

That's a great tool! Thanks for pointing me to it. I'm not sure if I can pinpoint the highest disk user because there are so many things that pop in/out of that during the 2-4 mins of high disk utilization. I do see that there are an abundant amount of svchost sessions that are doing all types of different things. I thought for a minute it might be the Windows Search Indexer because I saw that a lot, so I disabled the Windows Search service, restarted, but still had the 2-4mins of disk usage before windows turned the system fully over to me.
Does this happen to you as well, or anyone else? Is there really a way to pinpoint what's doing it or do you think it's just the culmination of all the things that load in Vista upon Logon?
"Oelph" wrote:

Go to Control Panel | System and Maintenance | Administrative Tools and run Performance Diagnostic Console.
"Tester_Billy" wrote:
nope, didn't see that process when i sorted by name. Usually I sort by CPU to see what's goin on, but all I see mostly is the DWM.EXE & SVCHOST.EXE running at lot during the first 2-4 mins while the HD is getting hit. What could be going on? No way to tell what's hitting the hard drive?
"RanoVA1916" wrote:
See if Dfrgntfs is running, new system performance setup in vista seems to have an auto schedual that, for me, started within first 5min after a clean install.
"Tester_Billy" wrote:
What is with Vista B2 hammering the disk right after logon for 2-4 mins? I have a Dell XPS 600 3.0Ghz Dual Core Pent D 2 GIG RAM 60GIG 10K SATA drive on an nForce4 motherboard .... I mean, this is a rockin' computer and it's just getting hammered so much the first 2-4 mins I literally can't do anything because if I do I'm sitting here waiting anyways while the system catches up. I do notice that DWM.EXE is running and using some processor while it's happening?!??! anyone know what is causing this and if it's a bug or by design or what??? Thx! Billy

That was one of the problems I had with BF2, the drive would run about 30 seconds after I started the game, which froze everything until it quit. I think it was paging so I got more memory and it seemed to help.
Clark
"Tester_Billy" wrote in message

That's a great tool! Thanks for pointing me to it. I'm not sure if I can pinpoint the highest disk user because there are so many things that pop in/out of that during the 2-4 mins of high disk utilization. I do see that there are an abundant amount of svchost sessions that are doing all types of different things. I thought for a minute it might be the Windows Search Indexer because I saw that a lot, so I disabled the Windows Search service, restarted, but still had the 2-4mins of disk usage before windows turned the system fully over to me.
Does this happen to you as well, or anyone else? Is there really a way to pinpoint what's doing it or do you think it's just the culmination of all the things that load in Vista upon Logon?
"Oelph" wrote:
Go to Control Panel | System and Maintenance | Administrative Tools and run Performance Diagnostic Console.
"Tester_Billy" wrote:
nope, didn't see that process when i sorted by name. Usually I sort by CPU to see what's goin on, but all I see mostly is the DWM.EXE & SVCHOST.EXE running at lot during the first 2-4 mins while the HD is getting hit. What could be going on? No way to tell what's hitting the hard drive?
"RanoVA1916" wrote:
See if Dfrgntfs is running, new system performance setup in vista seems to have an auto schedual that, for me, started within first 5min after a clean install.
"Tester_Billy" wrote:
What is with Vista B2 hammering the disk right after logon for 2-4 mins? I have a Dell XPS 600 3.0Ghz Dual Core Pent D 2 GIG RAM 60GIG 10K SATA drive on an nForce4 motherboard .... I mean, this is a rockin' computer and it's just getting hammered so much the first 2-4 mins I literally can't do anything because if I do I'm sitting here waiting anyways while the system catches up. I do notice that DWM.EXE is running and using some processor while it's happening?!??! anyone know what is causing this and if it's a bug or by design or what??? Thx! Billy

I don't really notice the problem if BFME, but just after window boots up. I can't seem to pin point whatever is the real culprit. Is anyone else having this problem and does anyone know what is causing it?
"Clark" wrote:

That was one of the problems I had with BF2, the drive would run about 30 seconds after I started the game, which froze everything until it quit. I think it was paging so I got more memory and it seemed to help.
Clark
"Tester_Billy" wrote in message That's a great tool! Thanks for pointing me to it. I'm not sure if I can pinpoint the highest disk user because there are so many things that pop in/out of that during the 2-4 mins of high disk utilization. I do see that there are an abundant amount of svchost sessions that are doing all types of different things. I thought for a minute it might be the Windows Search Indexer because I saw that a lot, so I disabled the Windows Search service, restarted, but still had the 2-4mins of disk usage before windows turned the system fully over to me.
Does this happen to you as well, or anyone else? Is there really a way to pinpoint what's doing it or do you think it's just the culmination of all the things that load in Vista upon Logon?
"Oelph" wrote:
Go to Control Panel | System and Maintenance | Administrative Tools and run Performance Diagnostic Console.
"Tester_Billy" wrote:
nope, didn't see that process when i sorted by name. Usually I sort by CPU to see what's goin on, but all I see mostly is the DWM.EXE & SVCHOST.EXE running at lot during the first 2-4 mins while the HD is getting hit. What could be going on? No way to tell what's hitting the hard drive?
"RanoVA1916" wrote:
See if Dfrgntfs is running, new system performance setup in vista seems to have an auto schedual that, for me, started within first 5min after a clean install.
"Tester_Billy" wrote:
What is with Vista B2 hammering the disk right after logon for 2-4 mins? I have a Dell XPS 600 3.0Ghz Dual Core Pent D 2 GIG RAM 60GIG 10K SATA drive on an nForce4 motherboard .... I mean, this is a rockin' computer and it's just getting hammered so much the first 2-4 mins I literally can't do anything because if I do I'm sitting here waiting anyways while the system catches up. I do notice that DWM.EXE is running and using some processor while it's happening?!??! anyone know what is causing this and if it's a bug or by design or what??? Thx! Billy

I don't really notice the problem if BFME, but just after window boots up. I can't seem to pin point whatever is the real culprit. Is anyone else having

this problem and does anyone know what is causing it?
Tester_Bill:
I have it with 2gigs of RAM. Per TaskMgr it is svchost.