"Keith Hodge" <Keith@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hello All,
>
> I am wondering if anybody who has managed to get to grips with Vista Home
> Premium has experienced my problem and found a solution?
>
> For no obvious reason my machine starts to perform some type of drive
> activity (defrag the drive or start searching the drive?) and hence makes
> all the noises and performance reduction I associate with defragmentation
> taking place. I have turned off Windows Defender, and taken Defrag off a
> schedule (in fact I use use Perfect Disk for my defragmenter and that is
> set up only to operate when manually called) but still the disk activity
> starts without me doing anything.
>
> Any help will sure be appreciated.
>
> Machine is a Medion MD8833 Quad Core.
>
Indexing? You can turn it off.
You can also use tools to look at disk I/O activity.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s...s/default.aspx