BarkingGhostar
Diamond Member
Wife has an HP Pavilion DV6-1030us laptop that she bought the summer before last. It is running Microsoft Windows Vista and this laptop had been restored twice in its lifetime due to quirky Windows anomalies.
The current experienced behavior is such that every time it is booted there is an unidentified amount of disk activity much like one would expect during an antivirus software doing a full scan. When I inspect the processes I see nothing using any CPU or memory load, but when I run Resource Manager there is definitely a lot of disk activity.
This happens on ALL boots, lasts for 20-30 minutes, and isn't the MSE (M$ Security Essentials) or Automatic Update. I can boot the laptop several times a day, leave it running for a couple of hours, and each time it will exhibit the same behavior. During some of these times the unit becomes non-responsive as the disk activity is intensive.
If I check network traffic it is practically non-existent, and when coupled with the lack of CPU/RAM usage I can only wonder what this mystery is. Anyone got any ideas on how to proceed in trying to resolve the issue? Mind you I do not give much cred to HP or Microsoft as the only thing installed personally is Firefox.
The current experienced behavior is such that every time it is booted there is an unidentified amount of disk activity much like one would expect during an antivirus software doing a full scan. When I inspect the processes I see nothing using any CPU or memory load, but when I run Resource Manager there is definitely a lot of disk activity.
This happens on ALL boots, lasts for 20-30 minutes, and isn't the MSE (M$ Security Essentials) or Automatic Update. I can boot the laptop several times a day, leave it running for a couple of hours, and each time it will exhibit the same behavior. During some of these times the unit becomes non-responsive as the disk activity is intensive.
If I check network traffic it is practically non-existent, and when coupled with the lack of CPU/RAM usage I can only wonder what this mystery is. Anyone got any ideas on how to proceed in trying to resolve the issue? Mind you I do not give much cred to HP or Microsoft as the only thing installed personally is Firefox.
