Vista - Vista makes my HDD noisy

What is Vista doing accessing the HDD all the time? I thought maybe it was
defragging in the background so turned off scheduled defrag and my HDD is
still being accessed all the time. I like my PC to be as quiet as possible
and the noise of the HDD being accessed all the time is pissing me off. If I
turn off indexing will it stop it doing this or is it something else causing
it?

Check the Services for anything involving an "Index" service or
"Search" service. Stop and then disable these services. I disabled
these and Vista got nice and quiet. Note that this will make
searching for files take longer. I personally get around this by
using the method of "not splattering files all over my hard drive." I
noticed that if I kept my files all in Documents, I seemed to know
exactly where all of my files were. BRILLIANT!

It is usually the indexing service that runs the hard drive for a while. It
does stop after a few days (or about a week). It makes searching faster, but
if you don't search much you can turn it off.

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"*^&%$$#*%!" <someone@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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yep thats just what vista does maybe a quieter hdd should be on your shopping list......
or install SP1 mine still spins up but no where near as much

Maybe the disk is being indexed, could be your anti-virus utility scanning
in the background. Have you checked the Task Manager to see which processes
have highest memory usage and CPU cycles? Could help filter down the
problem. I would also run a scan using the AV or the built in Windows
Defender antispyware utility.
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"S.SubZero" <ssubzero@xxxxxx> a écrit dans le message de
news:b04596f3-e586-4de2-930a-4180f4f3784e@xxxxxxThat's a M$ invention that should have been scrapped before it was issued.
The most obvious objection is thatW*nd*ws has a Documents structure per
user, a totally stupid idea for any family or company that has more than one
memeber. Documents should go into the directory structure that you and only
you have decided and constructed. What will you do on that happy day (soon
to come...?) when we have at last a user-friendly alternative to M$
operating systems?

, I seemed to know

"*^&%$$#*%!" <someone@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:A6Mhj.55118$uV6.14335@xxxxxxI notice my HDD light flashing a lot but no noise whatsoever in my new
computer as I have two Samsungs that are deadly silent.

"Will_S" <willsjunk@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:47888d3d$0$22095$afc38c87@xxxxxxI have an older Maxtor and a Samsung. Older Maxtors were noisy. Vista is on
the Maxtor because I had Linux on the Samsung until yesterday.

On Jan 11, 7:08 pm, NoStop <nos...@xxxxxx> wrote:This was one of the odd things I never got any kind of answer to, even
from the die-hard Vista-heads. Why does a clean install on a freshly
formatted hard drive need to index anything? Should Vista not KNOW
what it comes with?

I don't mind Vista too much, but it's goofy things like this that
turned me off to it.

"Pissing me off" is putting it litely! I've been trying to resolve this since I bought my laptop in October - I even put it up for sale! But I just couldn't swallow the loss, now I have to have music on when I'm working or I go berzerk with it.

I shut off almost everything I could including indexing, but this harddrive is always clicking away. Pagefile.sys and SVChost always seem to be at the top of the resource monitor list in Task Manager, I got a vague idea of what they are but I'm not a computer guy. I just want this clicking to stop.

Mine's a Toshiba laptop, is it definately Vista or is there a laptop out there that is quiet?