Vista - Hard-Drive Activity

Dear people,

I've been having some trouble with my Windows Vista. Everything works well
with it except one thing truly disturbs me. Let's say I leave my computer
without any program active. (My virusscanner only scans when I tell it too)
and there are no other background scanners working. When I leave my computer
at Idle my hard-drive keeps on processing things of which I have no clue what
they are. Does anyone maybe have a solution for this ?

Maybe it's handy to know that I do use 2 hard-drives. So maybe it's indexing
? cause they are 160 Gigs and 250 Gigs big.

Thank you kindly,

Bryan

Yes, it is indexing. It only does it when the PC is idle. Once it is done,
the HD activity slows down.

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"Herazio" <Herazio@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C562A5DB-B89A-4F43-B51C-9B9FD940B96C@microsoft.com...
> Dear people,
>
> I've been having some trouble with my Windows Vista. Everything works well
> with it except one thing truly disturbs me. Let's say I leave my computer
> without any program active. (My virusscanner only scans when I tell it
> too)
> and there are no other background scanners working. When I leave my
> computer
> at Idle my hard-drive keeps on processing things of which I have no clue
> what
> they are. Does anyone maybe have a solution for this ?
>
> Maybe it's handy to know that I do use 2 hard-drives. So maybe it's
> indexing
> ? cause they are 160 Gigs and 250 Gigs big.
>
> Thank you kindly,
>
> Bryan

Could also be defragmenting.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!



"Dustin Harper" <dharper@vistarip.com> wrote in message
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> Yes, it is indexing. It only does it when the PC is idle. Once it is done,
> the HD activity slows down.
>
> --
> Dustin Harper
> dharper@vistarip.com
> http://www.vistarip.com
>
> --
> "Herazio" <Herazio@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:C562A5DB-B89A-4F43-B51C-9B9FD940B96C@microsoft.com...
>> Dear people,
>>
>> I've been having some trouble with my Windows Vista. Everything works
>> well
>> with it except one thing truly disturbs me. Let's say I leave my computer
>> without any program active. (My virusscanner only scans when I tell it
>> too)
>> and there are no other background scanners working. When I leave my
>> computer
>> at Idle my hard-drive keeps on processing things of which I have no clue
>> what
>> they are. Does anyone maybe have a solution for this ?
>>
>> Maybe it's handy to know that I do use 2 hard-drives. So maybe it's
>> indexing
>> ? cause they are 160 Gigs and 250 Gigs big.
>>
>> Thank you kindly,
>>
>> Bryan
>

and superfetch!

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Byron Hinson
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Photos: http://www.byronhinson.com


"Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Could also be defragmenting.
>
> --
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Urban
> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
> (For email, remove the obvious from my address)
>
> Quote from George Ankner:
> If you knew as much as you think you know,
> You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
>
>
>
> "Dustin Harper" <dharper@vistarip.com> wrote in message
> news:0CDCFAFF-6AB6-40F8-9217-2B431EF0F0B1@microsoft.com...
>> Yes, it is indexing. It only does it when the PC is idle. Once it is
>> done, the HD activity slows down.
>>
>> --
>> Dustin Harper
>> dharper@vistarip.com
>> http://www.vistarip.com
>>
>> --
>> "Herazio" <Herazio@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:C562A5DB-B89A-4F43-B51C-9B9FD940B96C@microsoft.com...
>>> Dear people,
>>>
>>> I've been having some trouble with my Windows Vista. Everything works
>>> well
>>> with it except one thing truly disturbs me. Let's say I leave my
>>> computer
>>> without any program active. (My virusscanner only scans when I tell it
>>> too)
>>> and there are no other background scanners working. When I leave my
>>> computer
>>> at Idle my hard-drive keeps on processing things of which I have no clue
>>> what
>>> they are. Does anyone maybe have a solution for this ?
>>>
>>> Maybe it's handy to know that I do use 2 hard-drives. So maybe it's
>>> indexing
>>> ? cause they are 160 Gigs and 250 Gigs big.
>>>
>>> Thank you kindly,
>>>
>>> Bryan
>>
>

"Herazio" <Herazio@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C562A5DB-B89A-4F43-B51C-9B9FD940B96C@microsoft.com...
> Dear people,
>
> I've been having some trouble with my Windows Vista. Everything works well
> with it except one thing truly disturbs me. Let's say I leave my computer
> without any program active. (My virusscanner only scans when I tell it
> too)
> and there are no other background scanners working. When I leave my
> computer
> at Idle my hard-drive keeps on processing things of which I have no clue
> what
> they are. Does anyone maybe have a solution for this ?
>
> Maybe it's handy to know that I do use 2 hard-drives. So maybe it's
> indexing
> ? cause they are 160 Gigs and 250 Gigs big.
>
> Thank you kindly,
>
> Bryan

Hi Bryan,

I have noticed this also I have 1 x 200 Gig drive and 2 x 250 Gig drives.

I have switched off indexing and the activity has stopped.


John