What scans my hard drive in Win7 ?

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2010/08/26 12:21:02 (permalink)

What scans my hard drive in Win7 ?

Having a problem in my Windows 7 (32) machine.  A few minutes after boot something starts indexing my hard drives.  I can see this being done in resource monitor. 

It ramps my hard drive activity to 100% and cpu tp 95%.  At that point the machine becomes unusable until the process is over, about 10 min.

I have Superfetch disabled.  What else might do this? 

I keep seeing a Prefetch operation hapening but cannot find anything in services.msc that might point to it.

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dual boot xp/ win 7(32)
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    slartabartfast
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    Re:What scans my hard drive in Win7 ? 2010/08/26 14:29:28 (permalink)
    http://windows7themes.net/disable-windows-7-indexing.html
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    mark s
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    Re:What scans my hard drive in Win7 ? 2010/08/26 16:02:32 (permalink)
    I'll give that a shot.  I had it off but it killed all ability to do file searching. 

    thanks
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    jm24
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    Re:What scans my hard drive in Win7 ? 2010/08/28 11:08:57 (permalink)
    >> I had it off but it killed all ability to do file searching. 

    Always a balance. And the indexer is supposed to run only when other apps are not.

    Get a 3rd party file manager such as Powerdesk which can search with an indexer, wnd with a more resonable interface than the very lame windows search function.

    Do you AV software installed? Auto update?

    Automatic updates for any programs?
     Msconfig: uncheck adobe, quicktime, java, MS office fast start,...

    And, set the page file to "system managed" so the size can be adjusted as needed. Setting the min and max sizes requires windows to constantly clean it.

    J
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    Re:What scans my hard drive in Win7 ? 2010/08/28 21:44:11 (permalink)
    Thanks all. 

    Disabling indexing did the trick.  At least I can still search through the command line in the start tab.  I'm more than glad to not have to wait 10 minutes every time I boot up.  Been putting the thing to sleep rather than shutting off because of it.

    I went ahead and checked the things jm suggested.  I try to keep a pretty lean system.  I was already there.  Funny, when you set up a new system you tend to forget how you configured it until something like this happens.

    thanks again
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