"mbs6" wrote

>I have a machine running Win XP Home and whenever the machine is idle for a
> while the system disk goes nuts with reads and writes and never stops. I
> finally determined that defrag.exe and dfrgntfs.exe are the processes
> responsible. Somehow they are starting up whenever the machine is idle.
> It
> is driving me crazy as it never completes and causes my disk drive to
> always
> be in use. I suppose somewhere in the bowels of windows it has decided to
> take idle moments to optimize data on the disk. I DON'T WANT IT TO DO
> THIS
> WITHOUT ME ASKING IT TO!
>
> Somebody, somewhere at Microsoft knows why/how this is happening. Please
> clue in the rest of us.

If you want to know what someone at MS knows about this, you should call MS
tech support. This is a peer to peer newsgroup. You're not talking to MS
support here.

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system...benchmark.mspx