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Irretating Noise
Name: Hammamur Date: February 13, 2002 at 07:57:09 Pacific
Comment:
Hi, Windows Millenuim starts making this irretating noise after being inactive for about a minute. It seems like its doing something to the hard drive (it sounds like when you are defragmenting your hard drive). Does anyone know what it is, and how to stop it.
Name: Brant Date: February 13, 2002 at 08:02:49 Pacific
Reply:
What is running? could be a flaky drive. How old is it? Is your activity light flashing when it is making the noise?
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Response Number 2
Name: christof Date: February 13, 2002 at 08:06:26 Pacific
Reply:
Is your antivirus program running in the background ... How lang ago did you defrag you're harddisk for the last time ?
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Response Number 3
Name: Hammamur Date: February 13, 2002 at 08:20:23 Pacific
Reply:
I've got Windows XP aswell, and it doesn't make any noise at all. So, is it unusual for millenium to do this, I thought it could have been a reguler process it has to carry out. If it is something odd then it is probaberly something running the background. Could it be Mcafee Anti-virus?
Thank you!
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Response Number 4
Name: Renaissance Man Date: February 13, 2002 at 10:00:04 Pacific
Reply:
It's probably System Restore. I couldn't stand it (the noise, the use of resources, and the [ab]use of space) so I disabled it.
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Response Number 5
Name: Hammamur Date: February 13, 2002 at 10:29:05 Pacific
Reply:
Hi, response to the above:
Brant -> Yes, the activity light is flashing, what does that mean, and once again it doesn't happen wen using XP.
Renaissance Man -> I have disabled the systems restore, but it still making that noise, any other suggestions?
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Response Number 6
Name: Renaissance Man Date: February 13, 2002 at 15:09:12 Pacific
Reply:
If you disabled System Restore, did you also go to Start/Run, type msconfig, click on the startup tab, and uncheck *StateMgr & PC Health?
Do you have Anti-virus software running? Look at Sue’s response (#1) here: http://www.computing.net/windowsme/wwwboard/forum/19858.html
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