Who's Spinning my disk so hard? "SuperFetch"

posted by  hjwin (10)  15 months ago (mtaulty.com)

I'm sitting a my laptop and the disk is spinning like a demon and I'm wondering why? I'm not "doing anything" and so it worries me that my disk is whirring and whirring. Maybe this is irrational but it does.

I bring up the Resource Monitor and I find that it's a svchost.exe process that is doing a tonne of i/o on the pagefile (Resource Monitor is good for this stuff).

This puzzles me. Why should I be doing so much paging activity when I'm not "doing anything"?

Then (I think) I figure it out.

I run up a console, do a "net stop superfetch". Almost immediately the p