endless disk thrashing

After return from "sleep", the disk on my Toshiba laptop has been thrashing for almost 20 minutes until it finally stopped. I assume this is related to the search indexing, although when I check in Task Manager, SearchIndexer is not active, but an svchost is, with hundreds of megabytes of disk I/O.
I've limited (in theory) Search to just my Outlook file. Is it possible to stop Search entirely?
The page file of 950 MB is entirely full, there's about 85 MB of RAM available out of 512, so something is eating huge amounts of resources. Pre-Vista, these figures would be say 200 MB, 150 MB free.

I have stopped the searchindexer coompletely and that does not seem to help i am having the same problems I am noticing though that it is explorer which is using the most resources. I want to why I have over a gig of memory and its using at least 300mb and using 85 % of the cpu and the only thing i have running is internet explorer and maybe one other program
"Nicholas Bedworth, CTO, DigitalDirect" wrote:

After return from "sleep", the disk on my Toshiba laptop has been thrashing for almost 20 minutes until it finally stopped. I assume this is related to the search indexing, although when I check in Task Manager, SearchIndexer is not active, but an svchost is, with hundreds of megabytes of disk I/O.
I've limited (in theory) Search to just my Outlook file. Is it possible to stop Search entirely?
The page file of 950 MB is entirely full, there's about 85 MB of RAM available out of 512, so something is eating huge amounts of resources. Pre-Vista, these figures would be say 200 MB, 150 MB free.

So what you have to do is go into administrative tools, services, and stop, then disable, the Windows Desktop Search. Defender may also be using lots of disk access and CPU cycles.
I upgraded from 512 MB to 2.0 GB of RAM, turned off the disk swapping/pagefile, and these changes contributed to making everything run much better.

You still running wdm.exe as well? (Windows Vista Aero) I've noticed that when active my system is using 89megs of memory for it. When I change to Windows Vista Basic, it drops to 8megs of memory usage. Not as pretty overall, but still looks basically the same and my system runs MUCH better. (1gig memory on my system)
"Nicholas Bedworth, CTO, DigitalDirect" wrote in message

So what you have to do is go into administrative tools, services, and stop, then disable, the Windows Desktop Search. Defender may also be using lots of disk access and CPU cycles.
I upgraded from 512 MB to 2.0 GB of RAM, turned off the disk swapping/pagefile, and these changes contributed to making everything run much better.

I know - they're aware of this, and performance will be optimised in the near future :o) Tell them on the Sentiments site though - just so they get a memory refresh :o) http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=55160
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You still running wdm.exe as well? (Windows Vista Aero) I've noticed that when active my system is using 89megs of memory for it. When I change to Windows Vista Basic, it drops to 8megs of memory usage. Not as pretty overall, but still looks basically the same and my system runs MUCH better. (1gig memory on my system)
"Nicholas Bedworth, CTO, DigitalDirect" NicholasBedworthCTODigitalDirect@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message So what you have to do is go into administrative tools, services, and stop, then disable, the Windows Desktop Search. Defender may also be using lots of disk access and CPU cycles.
I upgraded from 512 MB to 2.0 GB of RAM, turned off the disk swapping/pagefile, and these changes contributed to making everything run much better.