odd vista startup problem.

[cyberwasp]

I have an hp m8120n running vista with 3 gig of ram. until a month ago it was running very well and startup was about 1 minute to the desktop and system idle, "no disk activity"

Well thing got pretty wierd as it would get to the desktop and the tsr on the task bar started taking forever to popup. Well I did a system recovery and things were fine for a bit after installing all of the hp and windows updates and my programs. now its back to odd behavior.

It start up normally, loads all the tsr's except adobe bridge, pauses for a minutethan the disk goes crazy for about 15 minutes. about two minutes in bridge icon appears in task bar. I've look in task manager to try and see what's running but nothing seems to be using the cpu, just the disk going crazy.  Any advice would be appreciated. have re installed windows a few times.

[Evan]

It sounds like you just have something in your start up routine that is hogging the hard drive. If you want to get a clear picture of what is running I recommend using Sysinternal's Process Explorer and Autoruns to see what is set to start with the system.

Evan

[Shane]

If it is Windows 7 open the performance monitor

To go start and paste this in
%windir%\system32\perfmon.exe /res

Once loaded click on the disk tab.

With this you can see exactly what is using the drive

That should help you pinpoint which program is going nuts on you.

Shane