"Wesley Vogel" <123WVogel955@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:O1qiFhNPHHA.140@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Hi Spikey,
>
>> He was also getting periods of hard drive activity when things were
>> freezing momentarily on the screen.
>
> Hard drive activity could be caused by any number of things.
>
> Prefetch doing some defragging; called ProcessIdleTasks or Optimize hard
> disk when idle.
>
> Optimize hard disk when idle allows Windows to rearrange files on the hard
> disk when the computer is not in use to improve performance.
>
> The WMI Performance Adapter Service (wmiapsrv.exe), for example, will run
> and fill %windir%\PCHealth\HelpCtr\DataColl with System History info that
> can be viewed in System Information (msinfo32.exe).
>
> And other Windows housekeeping chores.
>
> Viruses or other malware being busy sending E-mails to infect all of his
> friends machines.

I got it up to date with AVg, spybot and Adaware and did full scans both in
safe and normal mode (with show hidden files) before I started the back up
procedure.

I'm looking into housekeeping settings now.

:o)