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re: Constant disk access problem: more on the IBM case
Friday, May 25, 2007 at 8:20 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Friedemann
(1 messages posted)
I noticed the same problem on my notebook and on another notebook of my family both
running XP prof. In our cases lsass.exe did 3 writes and 3 reads about every second
accompanied by some I/O activities found for csrss.exe and the service "DCOM-Server
process launcher" (svchost -k DcomLaunch). I will never understand how an operating
sold for battery operated computers must be programmed like this.
This unwanted activity could be stopped by deactivating the service called "terminal
services". Without this service you cannot have multiple sessions on your PC, cannot
attach to remote sessions and cannot run a terminal server on your PC. Normally these
restrictions are ok for the home office or family user. At least for my understanding.
After this modification our notebooks are not completely I/O free, but the nerve-racking
flashing of the harddisk lamp has stopped. What a relief.
I miss some elegance in this fix, as multiple sessions are still offered in the logout
dialog, but behave as no-ops. Does somebody know a better solution?
On Sunday, May 30, 2004 at 7:08 am, Simon Lacoste-Julien wrote:
>I have exactly the same laptop configuration and had the same problem this morning,
>i.e. light disk access every second or so... The only I/O read activity was also
>from csrss.exe and lsass.exe. Exiting the IBM message center caused a very long
disk
>read (quite weird) and then the constant disk accesses magically stopped. Eichenger
>is probably right that this disk access problem can be caused by different programs
>on different computers...
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>If you want to get rid of the IBM Message Center always starting at boot time, you
>can delete its HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run registry key (using
>regedit) (I suggest that you write down its key entry somewhere so that you can
just
>recreate it if you want it back or you get some problems with the IBM installation
>later because of that...). More info about how to get rid of startup programs in
>different levels of cleanliness can be found at:
>http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_index.htm
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