Last night my desktop PC (Intel core 2 duo, 2 GB RAM) was thrashing the main disk drive like crazy, slowing down my system to a crawl. I checked Task Manager, but couldn’t find any reason why there was so much disk activity. All that disk writing just drives me insane! What’s up with it?
This morning I did a Google search for “vista disk thrashing” and got several hits from others with the same issue. This web site as well as this one were ones that I found that had several tweaks for increasing the performance of my Vista system (I implemented most of the tips). Before yesterday, I already had the Indexing Service, Volume Shadow Copy, and System Restore turned off. I believe my problem last night was the Superfetch Service (which tries to preload frequently used applications into spare memory).
So, I make several tweaks to my system, rebooted, ran CCleaner and AusLogics Registry Defrag, then rebooted again for good measure. So far, the disk thrashing hasn’t been too bad (crossing my fingers).
