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| Thread ID: 9710 | 2001-06-11 09:32:00 | Hard drive churning whilst computor supposedly idle | Guest (0) | Press F1 |
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| 13984 | 2001-06-11 09:32:00 | Whenever I leave my computor idle for more than 1.5 minutes or so the hard drive starts up like it is doing a disk defrag ( but isn't ) and stops immediately I touch the keyboard or mouse. Alt cntrl dlte shows no program running that shouldn't be,(Explorer). Anyone with any ideas of what causes this. Read in PC World of a program that sits in Task tray that can tell you what programs are running and how much memory is being used. Where do I get this? |
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| 13985 | 2001-06-11 17:56:00 | A couple of ideas come to mind, hopefully you may fit one on them. The most likly one being the Microsoft fast find indexer. The Find Fast Indexer is installed on your computer when you install Microsoft Office . Find Fast builds an index to speed up finding documents from the Open dialog box in Office programs. When you install Office , a shortcut called 'Microsoft Find Fast' is automatically added to the StartUp group. This allows Find Fast to run whenever you start the computer. After Find Fast is started, it automatically builds indexes and updates them in the background. Hence the hard drive working when the Pc in not in use. Reffer to microsoft support artice Q158705 at support.microsoft.com to diable fast find. Another option is could, are you running windows 2000??. Do you have indexing service installed. Check by going to control panel > Add remove programs >windows components. I have found this component to cause my machine to slow down. last off you disk may be quite fragmented. therefore your system has to do abit of work to find files, run programs etc. Defrag your drive. The easist way is to use the one that came with windows. Start > Progrmas > Accessaries > system tools > dis defrag. |
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| 13986 | 2001-06-13 01:52:00 | Do have an anti-virus program installed such as pc-cillin? It so it could be set up to scan the harddrive a set intervals for viruses. I had pc-cillin andhad harddive activity similar to urs and it would slow my pc down but I was able to diasable the automatic hd scans. |
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| 13987 | 2001-06-15 02:17:00 | What OS do you have? If you have Winnt or 2000, press crtl-alt-delete and open the task manager. Use the processes tab to view the processes currently running, in particular the amount of cpu time they are using. This should tell you the process that is causing all that disk access. | Guest (0) | ||
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