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HDD always accessing when nothing is run
Name: Kevin Date: October 23, 2001 at 14:39:13 Pacific
Comment:
Whenever I walk away from my computer which I have set to ignore all power saving features other than turning my monitor off after 15 minutes, when I come back my HDD is being accessed continually. I have noticed that if I press SHIFT to turn my screen back on the HDD is still being accessed but there is definatley nothing running. I even hit CTRL-ALT-DEL to bring up the task manager and there does not seem to be anything running that would be unusual or even be accessing the HDD. While the task manager is open the HDD stops. When I close the task manager the HDD will continue until I move the mouse at which time the HDD stops and returns to normal. I am running an Intel 550 with 80GIG HDD and 384 MB RAM.
Name: Ger Date: October 23, 2001 at 14:55:09 Pacific
Reply:
One possibility is PCHealth, as it runs a monitoring function every 10 minutes, but it doesn't show when you press ctrl--alt--delete.
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Response Number 2
Name: Kevin Date: October 23, 2001 at 15:17:53 Pacific
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Thanks for the speedy responce but PCHealth is not running on my computer. THX AGAIN!!!
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Response Number 3
Name: Dave Date: October 23, 2001 at 16:33:32 Pacific
Reply:
Can you post back what you have running on startup? You can run msconfig to find this out.
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Response Number 4
Name: Renaissance Man Date: October 24, 2001 at 04:54:34 Pacific
Reply:
If it's not PCHealth, then it's probably System Restore.
Also check start/programs/accessories/system tools/scheduled tasks.
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Response Number 5
Name: Trev Date: October 24, 2001 at 09:33:15 Pacific
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Some utility programs tuneup and sort your program files when the PC is idle so that the programs start better. Certain settings on Norton, for example, can be doing this.
Also, visit http://www.computing.net/windowsme/wwwboard/forum/14062.html and look especially at point 9 and visit the sites mentioned.
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Response Number 6
Name: Kevin Date: October 29, 2001 at 21:11:28 Pacific
Reply:
THX for all the great feedback guys; however, let me throw another screw into the mix. The constant HDD accessing happens even if the computer is waiting at the windows login screen for too long with no mouse movement. In other words, the Start Up programs have not even been loaded yet. How is that for bothersome!!!
I would still VERY much appreciated any and all new suggestions. THX!!!
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Response Number 7
Name: Dave Date: October 29, 2001 at 21:41:07 Pacific
Reply:
Does it do the same thing in safe mode?
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Response Number 8
Name: Dave Date: October 30, 2001 at 08:28:46 Pacific
Reply:
Also some programs still load when you are at the login prompt.
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