I've seen McAffee do this on my computer from time to time. Regardless
though, you can find out by using something to see what's using resources. A
good example: At Sysinternals.com you can get Process Explorer. It's a
great little utility to see what's going on. Try it, let us know...
--
-me.
Let this forum know if this helps or if you figure out the problem, so
others can benefit.



"Colin Barnhorst" wrote:
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> Use the Performance and Reliability Monitor in Adminstrative Tools to get an
> idea of what is going on with the drive activity. This gave me useful info
> and a suggested course to take in a similar situation. I found out that the
> system was spending excessive time writing to the page file and followed the
> suggestion in the report.
>
> "4evrnyt" <4evrnyt.399r7c@DoNotSpam.com> wrote in message
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> >
> > 3gb.
> >
> > it usually starts when the computer is just sitting idle. Internet
> > Explorer doesnt' seem to interrupt it but If I start a game it usually
> > stops. If I go into sleep mode, the hard drive will continue to run
> > almost immediately after waking it up. i also have turned off
> > powerboost.
> > Colin Barnhorst;3727131 Wrote:[color=darkred]
> >> How much memory do you have? If you have 2GB or less then I am not
> >> surprised the hard drive runs constantly and it still will no matter
> >> what
> >> you turn off. It is paging to virtual memory on the hard drive. The
> >> solution is to add more memory so that the system does not have to
> >> keep
> >> moving things back and forth.
> >>
> >> "4evrnyt" <4evrnyt.399dbe@DoNotSpam.com> wrote in message
> >> news:4evrnyt.399dbe@DoNotSpam.com...
> >> >
> >> > I am having the same issue with Vista 64-bit but I've turned off
> >> > indexing and superfetch and the hard drive is still running all the
> >> > time when I'm not doing anything on the computer.
> >> >
> >> > What is there to disable to get it to stop doing this?
> >> >
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