T61p HDD long startup activity, should i do a clean install?

I received WSXGA+ T61p several days before (maxed power)
i love the machine, it s got slight (10%) light leakage in the bottom - but i dont care about that (as long as it doesnt get worse through time)

Everything is running great, the only thing bothering me is HDD activity on startup.

It loads some vista crap immediately (sidebar), antivirus (Nod32), then Lenovo Welcome a other Lenovo stuff along with other applications (Diskkeeper, ...).

After these things load, there should be no big HDD activity, as long as I dont do anything, but there is quite high HDD activity for about 15 minutes after the startup (i am looking at resource manager), caused by scvhost.exe(NetworkingNo@#$%@%something), along with a bit higher Memory activity, CPU is not used much. First I thought I have some spyware/malware scanning my files sending info somewhere, but I installed Spyware Doctor and Nod32 and all full scans showed perfectly clean system (I use firefox

anybody any idea what might cause this activity? I am pretty sure this is a software thingie, if did a clean install (too lazy yet), it would buzz off. Maybe it is defragmenting HDD, I dont know what all the Lenovo Utilities do (that came preinstalled).

 

I've heard Vista can be that way for a bit until it sorts things out. When I had Vista on my R60, I didn't notice it.

 

Vista does it on every machine I've seen to date.
It'll stop doing that if you disable indexing, superfetch, automatic defrag and creation of restore checkpoints.

 

Use http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/Utilities/processmonitor.mspx to see who/what is causing all the disk i/o activity. You might want to turn off some of the default filters under Filter > Filter such as System, IRP_MJ_ and FASTIO_.

BTW, the Diskeeper crippled version that Lenovo ships IIRC does schedule defrags by default, sometimes at inopportune times.

 

thanks for the feedback guys!

 

i have same problem

i solve it by disable
1- system restore (windows )
2- indexing

 

What is indexing ??? And how do I disable it ???

 

I disabled it too.

I disabled

1) System restore
2) Indexing
3) ReadyBoost
4) Superfetch

Superfetch was the one making 10 min excessive HDD activity after startup

 

I would consider doing a clean install. After a clean install you should boot-up in about 60 seconds. The HDD activity is normal after start-up but it should only last about 5 minutes. The only way I know my HDD is being accessed is because the HDD light is lit for about 5 minutes. It doesn't inhibit me from starting any new applications.

I did disable system restore but everything else I have enabled and am putting to use. Consider using the sleep mode a little more often.

 

I uninstalled diskkeeper as well...it kept trying to defragment my computer every like 20 minutes...(discovered that was the reason i kept freezing in games)

 

No need to uninstall it. It is possible to disable Diskkeeper in ThinkVantage Maintenance Manager.

 

How is the Lenovo version crippled?

 

I don't know that it is crippled. It is probably still better than Vista native defrag utility.

Here is a comparison chart for the Diskeeper programs that you can purchase:
http://www.diskeeper.com/pdf/DK2007FeatureCompChart-Home.pdf

I honestly don't know what the free/included version of Diskeeper has to offer. I think it is safe to say that it has less functionality than the cheapest version of Diskeeper (Diskeeper Home).

 

the version in vista is diskeeper.

I dont know if the included version can defrag the pagefile or mft. As for the rest of the drive, the quality of defrag is the same.

Just use the included vista version.