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Vista Superfetch locks backup drive

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I notice that after I create a backup to an external drive with TI, Windows Vista starts reading through the .tib file. This process can take up to a half an hour to complete not allowing me to shut the external drive down until it completes. I believe that I have narrowed it down to the Superfetch service. Has anyone else run into this issue and have you disabled Superfetch to resolve it?

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John:

It isn't Superfetch that does this. The Superfetch process loads up idle RAM with your most-used programs so that they can start faster.

You're probably seeing the Indexing process which is creating an index of the files on the external disk. You can turn off indexing for this disk to prevent this from happening. Type "Index" and look under "Indexing Options".

I have already shut off Indexing. These are the services running under the particular svchost that was accessing the .tib files:

svchost.exe                   1372

 AudioEndpointBuilder,

 hidserv,

 Netman,      

 PcaSvc,

 SysMain (This is Superfetch),

 UxSms,

 WdiSystemHost,      

 Wlansvc,

 WPDBusEnum,

 wudfsvc                

John:

TI 2010 installs a search plugin that causes Vista search or Google Desktop to index the contents of .tib files. This is described in the User Guide on pages 144 - 151. Have a look at the guide to see the settings that control this process.

Thanks Mark,

I should have mentioned that I am using TI 11. There is nothing in its manual other than this vague reference in the NTFS file format section: "Files in folders are indexed to speed up file search". Next time I take a backup, I will see if I can pin down which service is doing the dirty work.