This morning I had almost reached the end of my rope waiting for my T60 to boot. It's been slow booting since I got the thing last year - but after boot is finished it flies.
I noticed that during the logon process my hard disk access was through the roof, so I turned to my friend Process Explorer from SysInternals. This handy tool is a Windows Task Manager replacement that gives you many more options and is a lot friendlier to work with. With this tool you can view tons of metrics about processes that are active on your machine; two of which are I/O Read Bytes and I/O Write Bytes. This gives you a great indication of what's eating up your hard disk bandwidth.
When I looked at the I/O Read/Write bytes just after the login process finished, I sorted by I/O read and noticed that the "Thinkvantage registry monitor service" had written around a GIG of data!! This was in about 2 minutes time. To shut off this process I went to the control panel, clicked on administrative tools, then services and set the service called "Thinkvantage registry monitor service" to manual. Now my machine boots in a much more reasonable amount of time.
Hope this helps someone out there.
4 comments:
Helped me. Thanks!
awesome. thanks pal! :D
Hi, I have about this on Vista and Lenovo´s thinkpads. Now I have bought an new T500 from Lenovo.
After all System update and the Windows update could I not get an desktop after logon to windows. (XP this time). I was stuck with an working harddrive for 1 to 2 hour. Then after this nothing happens when I press an icon to start an program.
This I thouht was beacause I downloaded an driver for my pointer from Windows update. A had to reinstall the whole system :-( 2 times. The third time I did not install the pointer driver and it work fine.
Now 2 day later. I have the same problem.
I have to try your soultion to see if it works.
//Peter
What you propose does not work for me, probably because I use the fingerprint identifier to logon to my computer.
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