"JamesP" <JamesP@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:771FEFC5-EE6D-4D53-BE06-BF9C78A4D8F0@microsoft.com...
> When I start my laptop up on Vista Ultimate it goes into the desktop and
> there is alot of hard drive activity for a few minutes. I have looked in
> the
> resource monitor and seen that it is windows services like svchost but I
> want
> to know if it could be anything else and how to improve this.

There are a number of things going on. One is "super fetch" loading apps
that you're likely to use (based on past behavior). Another is indexing,
and if you're using ReadyBoost then the contents of the page-file are being
copied to the flash drive. I stopped using ReadyBoost since it didn't do
make much difference - I have two gigs of ram - and that reduced disk
activity during startup. I also disabled indexing on all partitions except
C: Hope this helps.