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• Disk activity constant when using vista home

  Original title: I am running Vista Home premium and am sick of the constant disk activity slowing things down. I canceled the programs start and automatic indexing, but again the thing vibrates far. Does anyone have constructive ideas?

  Constant disk activity when using vista home. Any ideas how to stop it?

  Hello

  What antivirus/antispyware/security products do you have on the machine? Be one you have NEVER
  on this machine, including those you have uninstalled (they leave leftovers behind which can cause
  strange problems).

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  Follow these steps:

  Start - type this in the search box-> find COMMAND at the top and RIGHT CLICK – RUN AS ADMIN

  Enter this at the command prompt - sfc/scannow

  How to analyze the log file entries that the Microsoft Windows Resource Checker (SFC.exe) program
  generates in Windows Vista cbs.log
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/928228

  Also run CheckDisk, so we cannot exclude as much as possible of the corruption.

  How to run the check disk at startup in Vista
  http://www.Vistax64.com/tutorials/67612-check-disk-Chkdsk.html

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  After the foregoing:

  How to troubleshoot a problem by performing a clean boot in Windows Vista
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/929135
  How to troubleshoot performance issues in Windows Vista
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/950685

  Optimize the performance of Microsoft Windows Vista
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/959062
  To see everything that is in charge of startup - wait a few minutes with nothing to do - then right-click
  Taskbar - the Task Manager process - take a look at stored by - Services - this is a quick way
  reference (if you have a small box at the bottom left - show for all users, then check that).

  How to check and change Vista startup programs
  http://www.Vistax64.com/tutorials/79612-startup-programs-enable-disable.html

  A quick check to see that load method 2 is - using MSCONFIG then put a list of
  those here.
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  Tools that should help you:

  Process Explorer - free - find out which files, key of registry and other objects processes have opened.
  What DLLs they have loaded and more. This exceptionally effective utility will show you even who has
  each process.
  http://TechNet.Microsoft.com/en-us/Sysinternals/bb896653.aspx

  Autoruns - free - see what programs are configured to start automatically when you start your system
  and you log in. Autoruns also shows you the full list of registry and file locations where applications can
  Configure auto-start settings.
  http://TechNet.Microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx
  Process Monitor - Free - monitor the system files, registry, process, thread and DLL real-time activity.
  http://TechNet.Microsoft.com/en-us/Sysinternals/bb896645.aspx

  There are many excellent free tools from Sysinternals
  http://TechNet.Microsoft.com/en-us/Sysinternals/default.aspx

  -Free - WhatsInStartUP this utility displays the list of all applications that are loaded automatically
  When Windows starts. For each request, the following information is displayed: Type of startup (registry/Startup folder), Command - Line String, the product name, Version of the file, the name of the company;
  Location in the registry or the file system and more. It allows you to easily disable or remove unwanted
  a program that runs in your Windows startup.
  http://www.NirSoft.NET/utils/what_run_in_startup.html

  There are many excellent free tools to NirSoft
  http://www.NirSoft.NET/utils/index.html

  Window Watcher - free - do you know what is running on your computer? Maybe not. The window
  Watcher says it all, reporting of any window created by running programs, if the window
  is visible or not.
  http://www.KarenWare.com/PowerTools/ptwinwatch.asp

  Many excellent free tools and an excellent newsletter at Karenware
  http://www.KarenWare.com/

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  Vista and Windows 7 updated drivers love then here's how update the most important.

  This is my generic how updates of appropriate driver:

  This utility, it is easy see which versions are loaded:

  -Free - DriverView utility displays the list of all device drivers currently loaded on your system.
  For each driver in the list, additional useful information is displayed: load address of the driver,
  Description, version, product name, company that created the driver and more.
  http://www.NirSoft.NET/utils/DriverView.html

  For drivers, visit manufacturer of emergency system and of the manufacturer of the device that are the most common.
  Control Panel - device - Graphics Manager - note the brand and complete model
  your video card - double - tab of the driver - write version information. Now, click on update
  Driver (this can do nothing as MS is far behind the certification of drivers) - then right-click.
  Uninstall - REBOOT it will refresh the driver stack.

  Repeat this for network - card (NIC), Wifi network, sound, mouse, and keyboard if 3rd party
  with their own software and drivers and all other main drivers that you have.

  Now in the system manufacturer (Dell, HP, Toshiba as examples) site (in a restaurant), peripheral
  Site of the manufacturer (Realtek, Intel, Nvidia, ATI, for example) and get their latest versions. (Look for
  BIOS, Chipset and software updates on the site of the manufacturer of the system here.)

  Download - SAVE - go to where you put them - right click - RUN AD ADMIN - REBOOT after
  each installation.

  Always check in the Device Manager - drivers tab to be sure the version you actually install
  presents itself. This is because some restore drivers before the most recent is installed (sound card drivers
  in particular that) so to install a driver - reboot - check that it is installed and repeat as
  necessary.

  Repeat to the manufacturers - BTW in the DO NOT RUN THEIR SCANNER device - check
  manually by model.

  Look at the sites of the manufacturer for drivers - and the manufacturer of the device manually.
  http://pcsupport.about.com/od/driverssupport/HT/driverdlmfgr.htm

  How to install a device driver in Vista Device Manager
  http://www.Vistax64.com/tutorials/193584-Device-Manager-install-driver.html

  If you update the drivers manually, then it's a good idea to disable the facilities of driver under Windows
  Updates, that leaves about Windows updates but it will not install the drivers that will be generally
  older and cause problems. If updates offers a new driver and then HIDE it (right click on it), then
  get new manually if you wish.

  How to disable automatic driver Installation in Windows Vista - drivers
  http://www.AddictiveTips.com/Windows-Tips/how-to-disable-automatic-driver-installation-in-Windows-Vista/
  http://TechNet.Microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc730606 (WS.10) .aspx

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  Refer to these discussions because many more excellent advice however don't forget to check your antivirus
  programs, the main drivers and BIOS update and also solve the problems with the cleanboot method
  first.

  Problems with the overall speed of the system and performance
  http://support.Microsoft.com/GP/slow_windows_performance/en-us

  Performance and Maintenance Tips
  http://social.answers.Microsoft.com/forums/en-us/w7performance/thread/19e5d6c3-BF07-49ac-a2fa-6718c988f125

  Explorer Windows stopped working
  http://social.answers.Microsoft.com/forums/en-us/w7performance/thread/6ab02526-5071-4DCC-895F-d90202bad8b3

  Hope these helps.

  Rob Brown - MS MVP - Windows Desktop Experience: Bike - Mark Twain said it right.

• My Dell laptop has begun to consume 100% of his memory and then eating my hard disk activity, causing the light becomes solid.

  After the restart after that the most recent windows update, my computer dell laptop began to consume 100% of its memory, and then eating my hard disk activity, causing the light becomes solid. The computer is severely slow, I checked for viruses, malware, and registry errors with no chance to address the issue. The computer is a memory dump, but I could so he could properly start without doing a memory dump, it becomes all just slow and unresposive at the simplest of tasks. Any ideas of what it could be? What to check? How to fix?

  Original title: excessive use of Ram

  Runs a more comprehensive material, it was established that it is a bad hard drive. Fortunately, it's not bad enough that the data is not recoverable so I replace the hard drive.

• Equium L350 starts (led on) but no HARD disk activity

  Hi all

  I got this Toshiba Equium L350D since September 2008 and it has not been used often, it worked fine two days ago, but yesterday I turned on it, with attached cord and the "cap" light came and was solid, and has therefore the power and battery indicators, I could hear the fan and the light on the cd/dvd was on. But that's all, no hard disk activity at all.

  I could not turn off without unplugging the power cable and remove the battery as the power button does not seem to make a stop if pressed during 10 seconds.

  All the advice, set apart from taking it to a repair center, because I really don't want to spend too much money on it.

  Hi dude

  I think that you have no choice as to contact a technician for laptop.
  The point is that this issue sounds like a hardware problem serious, I think of the mother or the CPU issue because it was not possible to stop the unit by pressing the power button for 10 seconds

  The laptop was purchased in September 2008?
  Well, if you have saved the laptop on the Toshiba driver European page then the guarantee must be valid for 24 months. Which means that the guarantee must be still valid
  So you should not have to pay anything

  Welcome them

• Why is there the constant disk activity since I upgraded to 30.0?

  Since Firefox has been upgraded to v 30.0 (and it has been updated automatically, I don't like) there is the constant disk activity. Is there a way to revert to a previous version until this problem is solved?

  I created a new profile and all the disk activity is gone. Thanks cor - el.

• HP Pavilion 510 desktop PC: HP 510 desktop - no disk activity light

  I wanted to register my disappointment and disapproval than the HP Pavilion PC Office 510

  does not provide a disk activity light.  Otherwise, looks like a good solid system.

  @michael_coulter,

  Just for you, I downloaded and tested this indicator of hard disk activity of the task bar.    When he disappears, just press the 'up' arrow (show hiden icons) on the taskbar and drag taskbar icon.

• I have CS5 drives that were installed on an old laptop which is dead. I would like to reinstall this product on a new computer. I installed the disks on my computer, but I can't activate the product. Can you help me get a new serial number?

  I have CS5 drives that were installed on an old laptop which is dead. I would like to reinstall this product on a new computer. I installed the disks on my computer, but I can't activate the product. Can you help me get a new serial number?

  As far as I know, Adobe won't give you a new serial number

  Mac or Windows and EXACTLY what version of the operating system?

  Recent Mac AND Windows operating systems have been known to cause problems "weird."

  Invalid License http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/error-serial-number-valid-product.html

  -http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/invalid-serial-number-cs4.html

  - and http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1038761

• HP Pavilion DV7 laptop: Touchpad, sometimes active, even when the power button is pressed on off (light orange)

  I use a wireless mouse (or a wired mouse) preferably instead of the touchpad.   The touchpad has a power button to press - white light indicates on and off Orange light.    After booting, I usually disable the touchpad and mouse wireless, however, sometimes when you type I realize my palms are contacting the touchpad and the cursor jumps around accordingly.    The touchpad is disabled (orange light) but I can control it with a finger, it works like its supposed to as if it is enabled.     Any ideas?   I have not downloaded a driver updated or do anything to try to solve this problem, as I fear, it could actually cause other problems.

  Update the driver it is the usual Council for problems - that is the solution here?   Has anyone else had a similar problem.    Most of the touch pad problems I've read is in regards to an erratic touchpad - nothing to do with 'on' or 'off' problems.

  HI @WayneCM,

  Thank you for your inquiry. I will do my best to help you!

  I understand that you use the power button / stop to turn off the touchpad.  Sometimes, you will notice that your palm is in contact with it and the cursor is accordingly jump around but the rest light orange, to show that he has disabled.  Here is a link for HP Notebook PCs - using the touchpad and ClickPad (Windows 10). Please review the section on "Open the properties of the ClickPad" in figure 4, you'll see there's a button where you can disable the touchpad, until you want to reactivate it. Please let me know if this helped.

  Thank you! If it helps you to find a solution, please click the button "accept as Solution" down below in this message. If you want to say 'Thank you' to my effort to help, click on ' Thumbs Up ' to give me a Kudos.

• frequent blocking of 30-60 seconds with the solid disk activity

  I have a problem when VMware Workstation locks for 30 to 60 seconds, with the solid disk activity.  No reaction, even to things like no caps lock or num lock (virtual machine uses the keyboard extended; if I'm in the host, it shows the caps/numlock lights - i.e., VMware is busy and does not move the keyboard to the virtual machine, but does not lock the host)

  Host and client are Windows XP SP2; I am running VMware Workstation 6.5.0 build 118166 (there is a newer version, but nothing in the release notes applicable looks to this)

  Laptop has 4 GB of memory, 2 Ghz Core 2 Duo.

  2 discs; system on a virtual machines on another (7200 RPM, 16meg cache)

  I tested both S.M.A.R.T. drives - well within the parameters of "good".

  I tried everything I can think with it - enabling/disabling virtual memory (XP) on the host or client, performance parameters, change the virtual computer's memory size, etc..

  It happens sometimes strange - when I'm just typing (as in this sentence - it just did it) and is happening in the virtual machines that are different sizes of memory.  It seems to happen in all virtual machines, regardless of their size of the memory.  (I have VMs from 512megs upwards) It happens when I'm under VM only one or more - it seems worse when running more than one, but not linear. at the least not bad enough to keep me from running more than one.  (I usually use only one or two virtual machines) It never happens if I am not under VMware. If I'm just under apps on the host.

  It does not matter what applications I use in the client.  Definition of VMware to keep everything in memory does not help.  Disable the removal of pages of memory doesn't help.  (which shouldn't matter if I run only 1 VM, would it?)  Newspapers are disabled. I have configured VMware to use the maximum of the reserved memory (3456meg).  There is no worse if I run apps in the host (usually just one editor, sometimes Firefox, sometimes Nero Burning Disc)

  I am baffled by the latter.  It seems to be deteriorating lately, but maybe it's just my annoyance level Crescent...  I'm not sure; I think that way started when I went to this laptop, but I'm not sure.

  Someone at - it ideas?

  -Al Weiner-

  Look over your logs, I see that you seem to have active VMware shared folders.  VMware shared folders have all kinds of strange questions.  Try to disable/turn off your VMware shared folders to see if that makes a difference.

• Satellite Pro L10, the hard disk activity?

  Hi, I noticed that on my new L10 Pro of Satellite keeps it hard drive light flashing every 3 seconds approximately and I can also hear disk activity, even when he's just sitting there idle. I was wondering if this is normal, if so why? I was a little suspicious, so I checked all processes running, nothing suspicious. I thoght maybe it's because my drive is fragmented, then defragmented but no change. I thought maybe theres a kind of disk being cached on. I have 512 MB of ram and adequate committed virtual memory, if its doing with VMM is this normal?

  Hello

  It is not easy to say what the reason for this. I had a similar problem with my Satellite. The HARD drive was very often active and very slow. In my case, the reason was the antivirus software. The scanning of the HARD drive has been the almost permanent process and something to work on the machine was almost impossible.

  After removing the antivirus software HDD is fast. Now, I found a new and there is no problem more.

• Satellite 3000-214: after CPU upgrade no screen and no HARD disk activity

  Hey all,.
  I have a 3000-214 Satellite that comes originally with a PIII-M 933 Mhz. (SL5CG)
  http://videoff7.free.fr/sl5cg.jpg

  I ordered on eBay a second hand replacement (1133 Mhz) CPU SL5CK. (same number of pins, the same processor family: RH80530)
  When I go in, the laptop starts, but there is nothing on the screen and no HARD disk activity.

  So I asked the seller if he had tested the CPU, it sent, he said no and sent me 2 CPUs of replacement, another SL5CG and a SL64Z (which does not appear on the Intel site for some strange reason, but which is of the same characteristics as the SL5CG..)
  http://videoff7.free.fr/sl5ck.jpg
  http://videoff7.free.fr/sl64z.jpg

  The two processors give the same result with nothing on the screen and no activity of the HARD drive either.
  I checked my BIOS, it is the latest version: 2.30.
  Some laptops in the series 3000 Satellite (e.g. 3000-601), are delivered with a 1133 Mhz CPU (SL5CK) and also share the same bios exactly like my 3000-214. (upgrades to the bios on Toshiba website for my 214 & 601 are the same exact links and MD5 are equal). Also the 3000-601 & 3000-214 share the same chipset: Intel 830MP.
  But for some reason, it does not.

  EC which could I missed?

  It is always possible that all 3 processors that I was sent by the seller are dead, but it would be strange at this point, I think.
  So my question is, anyone have any idea what I might try to work or have experience with the upgrade a Satellite 3000 CPU?

  My warranty is looooong Sub anyway, so if a Toshiba employee could check in the basis of how fast max CPU can be used on the Sat 3000-214, I would be very grateful.

  Thanks a bunch for any info.
  Kind regards

  Alcahest

  Hello

  I studied a bit in the web and it seems that the Satellite 3000 has been bundled with Intel Mobile PIII 800, 850, 900, 1000 MhZ CPU

  I think that this will not work because of the speed of the CPU.
  In addition, I found this Toshiba document:
  http://support.toshiba-tro.de/KB0/FAQ5300W5000XR01.htm

  It is said that it is not possible to replace the processor in a laptop Tosh because processors are connected to the motherboard using a process called TCP tape carrier package.

• Csrss.exe high disk activity

  Csrss.exe is constantly reading e/s. You can hear the churning of disk as well as to see the activity with the Task Manager. I use Windows 7 64. I don't know what he thinks, he must do it, but I just want to stop it. If she did something like disk indexing, if the price is the constant disk activity then I have indexed disk.

  If anyone knows how I can stop this thing I would appreciate it.

  Hello

  You can check this link:

  http://TechNet.Microsoft.com/en-us/Sysinternals/bb896646

• On my laptop Win7 +-icons disappeared. Would be to enlarge or reduce web pages. How to make a comeback? I have the latest version of Firefox.

  As well my Win XP desktop and laptop Win7, I have + and - icons. That one click would shrink or enlarge web pages. The icon on the laptop (HP) has disappeared. I can't 'customize' or find a way to get back them. I know that I can use ctr + /, but it's bulky. I appreciated the service I had once. I did everything to try to understand this point, cannot and am appealing to you. Thank you.

  You can use an extension to set a page zoom and the size of the default font on the web pages.

  • Default FullZoom Level: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/default-fullzoom-level/
  • NoSquint: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/nosquint/

  You can find toolbar zoom buttons in the window customize.

  Make sure the toolbars like the toolbar 'Navigation' and the 'personal bar' are visible: "view > toolbars".

  • Open the window to customize the toolbars to display the value
    • View > toolbars > customize
    • Firefox > Options > toolbars
  • If the missing elements are in the toolbar palette then drag them from the window, customize the toolbar
  • If you do not see an item on a toolbar in the toolbar palette and then click the button "Restore default" to restore the default toolbar set up
  • http://KB.mozillazine.org/Toolbar_customization
  • https://support.Mozilla.org/KB/back+and+forward+or+other+toolbar+items+are+missing

• 1st generation ATV dead. Orange light but no screen and no resetting of distance.  I tried direct connection to Mac and iTunes open and he's not here.  Is it possible to restore to the factory without screen or remote work

  1st generation Apple TV is dead. Orange light but no screen and no resetting of distance. I tried direct connection to Mac and iTunes open and he's not here. Is it possible to restore to the factory without screen or remote workin

  I guess you tried maintained low men together for about 6 seconds - silver 1 ATV that will restart to the diagnostic partition but who would rely on the hard disk is functional and if it was ok that wouldn't work with the logic board failure.

  I guess you have not fed and attempted to restart.

  In case your AppleTV think it is paired with another remote try Menu and left arrow for 6 seconds - the light now intervenes when you press the buttons on the remote?

  Also, it could be in the video mode bad - try Menu and upward arrow together for 6 CES switch video modes, but implies that he actually started OK.

• I am able to access my desktop to my laptop as part of a homegroup, but can not access the external hard drive that is attached to my office.

  share external hard drive

  I am able to access my desktop to my laptop as part of a homegroup, but can not access the external hard drive that is attached to my office. I want to be able to back up my laptop hard disk external.  Advice please.

  geraintjo

  I do not use homegroups, but 'true' to share, so I don't know how this is supposed to work with homegroups. But usually he should share a drive or folder, first before you can access it from another machine. (for example, click on the drive/folder properties and go to the sharing tab)