Toshiba M200
I bit the bullet recently and bought a new Toshiba m200 tablet pc. Its an incredible piece of hardware, but I have found a few things that are annoying which will be posted over a period of time. The first was that the hard disk made a distinctive click sound whenever it was being used. This would have been no big deal but it was making the click sound around once a second. At first I thought it was the lsass process because it was performing IO every second, but some help from the filemon utility (sysinternals.com) showed it was a Toshiba provided system tray utility ndstray.exe. This lead me to go nuts and uninstall a heap of Toshiba supplied packages that came with the machine. There were around a dozen or so of these things. Its not easy to figure which of these extras are needed and which aren't. All of the packages listed in the screen capture below are part of the Toshiba supplied set. It also made for a full windows system tray. A list of Toshiba executables names can be found here and there’s also a faq link page that was useful.
