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Old 01-12-2009   #1 (permalink)
Abi


 
 

Re: Vista Business - hard disk running constantly

> Do you have any virus scanners running? Do you have any registry "cleaners"
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> running? Do you have any defrag programs running?
I believe I turned of the virus scanner. How to I determine if any registry
cleaners are running?

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Old 01-12-2009   #2 (permalink)
Sonny Wortzik


 
 

Re: Vista Business - hard disk running constantly

On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 06:40:11 -0800, Abi
<Abi@xxxxxx> wrote:
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Quote:

>> Do you have any virus scanners running? Do you have any registry "cleaners"
>> running? Do you have any defrag programs running?
>
>I believe I turned of the virus scanner. How to I determine if any registry
>cleaners are running?
They won't be running... that was a really stupid question. You might
remember who asked it and ignore that person.
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Old 01-12-2009   #3 (permalink)


Vista Ultimate (x64)
 
 

Re: Vista Business - hard disk running constantly

Open ask manager. I found my disk spinning itself to death (Ultimate 64) because of svchost.exe -- all of them were running at normal speed but 1... and this was immediately after a restart.
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