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Hard Drive Activity
Name: neumannu47 Date: November 17, 2007 at 23:18:16 Pacific OS: XP SP2 CPU/Ram: 2GB Product: Dell D610
Comment:
I have a Dell laptop on which the hard drive seems to want to run a LOT. Indexing service is disabled. Google Desktop is not installed. Windows Desktop is not installed.
Looking at Task Manager trying to determine the source of the activity is no help. Whatever program is accessing the hard drive is not using very much CPU power.
The computer has no viruses and no spyware. It's extremely clean and well maintained.
Is there a utility that will display what program is accessing the hard drive?
Name: Jennifer SUMN Date: November 18, 2007 at 08:48:01 Pacific
Reply:
If the computer is turned on, the hard drive is being accessed. Have you defragged lately?
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Response Number 2
Name: SysLock Date: November 18, 2007 at 09:48:46 Pacific
Reply:
You might also want to check Task Scheduler in control panel and see if a task is running in the background when idle. It could be a spyware or virus scan going on or even a program update.
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Response Number 3
Name: XpUser Date: November 18, 2007 at 10:07:42 Pacific
Reply:
The bottom line here is that because Windows XP is a dynamic OS, it is impossible for HDDs to stay idle when you're not doing anything. Windows XP is known to do a lot of things without any user interactions.
Summary: You didn't give many details about your computer, but I can say that the annoying idle hard drive activity on my computer went away after I abandoned my upgrade install, and went with a fresh install ...
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