Bravo2zero_sps

Running Vista Home premium sp1 on a core2duo 2ghz dell inspiron 1720 that is not even 6 months old.

I have been on to Dell about the fact the wireless connectivity icon takes several minutes before it updates to say its actually connected (all my other vista machines connect and update the icon immediately).

When checking the performance of the laptop as it boots up and loads the desktop the hard drive is going nuts and looking at processes there is an svchost process using at least 50% processor power and at one point was at 80mb of memory. I checked what services this related to and it highlighted the bits and browser services with id 1172. These were hammering the laptop for a good 5-10 minutes after booting up.

My question is why are they? My Mrs Vostro 1500 1.4ghz doesn't do this so what on earth is mine doing? (hers is on vista home basic)

Also Audioendpointbuilder looks as though it maybe the main cause having googled it as this is still sitting as an svchost process using 50mb of memory long after the laptop has been booted up - process id 1156. Bits and browser have settled on 32mb of memory holding an svchost process open in processes.

I am assuming it is these processes hammering resources that is causing the network connectivity icon to take so long to update and change from the icon with the red cross to the icon with the globe.

Dell are calling me back tomorrow while they look into it, the girl who I was speaking with and doing the remote control was hopeless compared to other dell techies i've had before who have always been good.

I've been doing IT support for many years and this has stumped me. I have updates to the latest drivers, tried uninstalling all the software that starts at boot up like Mcafee and even with a bare system it was still as if its the OS itself and not being caused by installed software running at start up. However I have other Vista machines that do not do this

Doing more google searching apparently lots of Vista users have reported similar and point their fingers at the superfetch service. Anyone else had problems with this?

Bravo2zero_sps

Yep Sonic it does, but the Mrs Vostro has the same card and does not have any issues. The wireless I am certain is being held up by the audioendpointbuilder which is hammering the processors and memory.

Scoobz72 tried that, removed software etc and made no difference. I've done all the obvious desktop support type stuff, this is a more technical issue than that.

Google superfetch and audioendpointbuilder and it seems a common problem.

Bravo2zero_sps

Not likely, the current pagefile is 2345mb so don't want it any bigger than that unless Vista does it itself. That's big as it is.

Bravo2zero_sps

Found the culprit, vmware server services. Noticed there were loads of vmware services all set to automatic and started. Uninstalled it and bingo, wireless network icon now instantly updates and Mcafee is the first icon to load where as with vmware server installed it was the last to load

That's the end of vmware server on my laptop then, sod that knackering it, will just dial into work and use theirs instead

Bravo2zero_sps

Thanks for the reply, i'd already tried this as knew the wireless drivers weren't up to date but didn't help. However going to update them again now as I had put them back to the Microsoft driver just to check. Removed Dell's bloatware the first time I booted the laptop up out of the box, was the first thing I did. Although learnt from the Mrs Vostro when it turned up to always go business models in future as they come with no bloatware and the Vostro is a very nice machine. It cost half the amount of my Inspiron and although it has a 2" smaller screen and a 1.4ghz cpu it is still a cracking laptop.

Vmware server was about the only thing I didn't uninstall yesterday thinking it wouldn't be that

Bravo2zero_sps

Cheers Sonic, have read a lot about the wireless chipset and having problems but thankfully never had any issues with mine dropping connection. I have turned off the power saving anyway just to make sure.