Vista Tutorial - Disk Drive grinding away all the time

05-03-2008

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.

Keith

05-03-2008

"Keith Hodge" <Keith@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Quote:

> 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

05-03-2008	#1 (permalink)
Keith Hodge Guest n/a posts	Disk Drive grinding away all the time 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. Keith
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05-03-2008	#2 (permalink)
Mr. Arnold Guest n/a posts	Re: Disk Drive grinding away all the time "Keith Hodge" <Keith@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:0D136BB8-DDCC-4A27-AFC7-549E511DABC0@xxxxxx Quote: > 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
My System Specs

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