Vista - My hard drive is constantly grinding away

Beside the fact it is very annoying I'm curious as to why? Running Vista
Home premium

Welcome to Vista! I too am very annoyed that Vista sometimes grinds away at
my HD. Even though I disabled seach index. It messes up my performance.

Blimey, some people get annoyed by little things!

It's doing what all good operating systems do. Some of the activity is due
to scheduled disk defragmentation. Some is the search and indexing system
(though this diminishes to almost zero after a few days). Sometimes it
preloads files into memory so they load much faster for you (based on your
useage patterns). Sometimes it shuffles files around on the hard disk to
speed up the boot process.

In other words, it's all good stuff. Just ignore it.

Steve

When you say "constantly," to do mean "all of the time," or merely "often"?

Daze
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Early Spring wrote:
> Beside the fact it is very annoying I'm curious as to why? Running
> Vista Home premium
>

"Steve Thackery" <thack@nowhere.net> skrev i meddelelsen
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> Blimey, some people get annoyed by little things!
>
> It's doing what all good operating systems do. Some of the activity is
> due to scheduled disk defragmentation. Some is the search and indexing
> system (though this diminishes to almost zero after a few days).
> Sometimes it preloads files into memory so they load much faster for you
> (based on your useage patterns). Sometimes it shuffles files around on
> the hard disk to speed up the boot process.
>
> In other words, it's all good stuff. Just ignore it.
>
> Steve

LoL you are really sellin' it hard ;P

The thing is... YOU CANNOT IGNORE IT!!!!

What if every other time you went for a drive someone would attach a 10ton
trailer to your car that it would have to drag?... Just ignore it??

So does this mean that when you purchase Vista and install it Microsoft has
managed to load a little man with an angle grinder who works away on your
hard drive ?

"Daze N. Knights" wrote:

> When you say "constantly," to do mean "all of the time," or merely "often"?
>
> Daze
> -----
>
> Early Spring wrote:
> > Beside the fact it is very annoying I'm curious as to why? Running
> > Vista Home premium
> >
>

"Early Spring" <day_time_night@yahoonospam.ca> wrote in message
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> Beside the fact it is very annoying I'm curious as to why? Running Vista
> Home premium
>

I have a Samsung Spinpoint. It is very quiet - no clicking.

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Michael Chare

On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:06:21 -0700, Frank <fb@nospamm.cmm> wrote:

>Steve is absolutely correct in all he said. Vista thru superfetch, over
>a short period of time, "learns" your computer habits and "anticipates"
>your needs.

Like generating a BSOD? Saying "Windows Explorer encountered a
unexpected problem and needs to close." or my personal favorite, Media
Player saying it needs a codec and coming back empty handed.

http://www.thehumorarchives.com/joke...Error_Messages

http://www-stu.cai.cam.ac.uk/~cjr43/errors/filing.html

I hope your strange question wasn't meant to be an answer to my question
.. . .


Bob wrote:
> So does this mean that when you purchase Vista and install it Microsoft has
> managed to load a little man with an angle grinder who works away on your
> hard drive ?
>
> "Daze N. Knights" wrote:
>
>> When you say "constantly," to do mean "all of the time," or merely "often"?
>>
>> Daze
>> -----
>>
>> Early Spring wrote:
>>> Beside the fact it is very annoying I'm curious as to why? Running
>>> Vista Home premium
>>>

Sounds like you may need more RAM.