Beside the fact it is very annoying I'm curious as to why? Running Vista
Home premium

Welcome to Vista! I too am very annoyed that Vista sometimes grinds away at
my HD. Even though I disabled seach index. It messes up my performance.

Blimey, some people get annoyed by little things!

It's doing what all good operating systems do. Some of the activity is due
to scheduled disk defragmentation. Some is the search and indexing system
(though this diminishes to almost zero after a few days). Sometimes it
preloads files into memory so they load much faster for you (based on your
useage patterns). Sometimes it shuffles files around on the hard disk to
speed up the boot process.

In other words, it's all good stuff. Just ignore it.

Steve

When you say "constantly," to do mean "all of the time," or merely "often"?

Daze
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Early Spring wrote:[color=blue]
> Beside the fact it is very annoying I'm curious as to why? Running
> Vista Home premium
>[/color]

"Steve Thackery" <thack@nowhere.net> skrev i meddelelsen
news:%23%23bGMBcfHHA.1008@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> Blimey, some people get annoyed by little things!
>
> It's doing what all good operating systems do. Some of the activity is
> due to scheduled disk defragmentation. Some is the search and indexing
> system (though this diminishes to almost zero after a few days).
> Sometimes it preloads files into memory so they load much faster for you
> (based on your useage patterns). Sometimes it shuffles files around on
> the hard disk to speed up the boot process.
>
> In other words, it's all good stuff. Just ignore it.
>
> Steve[/color]

LoL you are really sellin' it hard ;P

The thing is... YOU CANNOT IGNORE IT!!!!

What if every other time you went for a drive someone would attach a 10ton
trailer to your car that it would have to drag?... Just ignore it??

So does this mean that when you purchase Vista and install it Microsoft has
managed to load a little man with an angle grinder who works away on your
hard drive ?

"Daze N. Knights" wrote:
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> When you say "constantly," to do mean "all of the time," or merely "often"?
>
> Daze
> -----
>
> Early Spring wrote:[color=green]
> > Beside the fact it is very annoying I'm curious as to why? Running
> > Vista Home premium
> >[/color]
>[/color]

"Early Spring" <day_time_night******nospam.ca> wrote in message
news:WDETh.66684$__3.24030@edtnps90...[color=blue]
> Beside the fact it is very annoying I'm curious as to why? Running Vista
> Home premium
>[/color]

I have a Samsung Spinpoint. It is very quiet - no clicking.

--
Michael Chare

Per wrote:[color=blue]
> "Steve Thackery" <thack@nowhere.net> skrev i meddelelsen
> news:%23%23bGMBcfHHA.1008@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>[color=green]
>> Blimey, some people get annoyed by little things!
>>
>> It's doing what all good operating systems do. Some of the activity
>> is due to scheduled disk defragmentation. Some is the search and
>> indexing system (though this diminishes to almost zero after a few
>> days). Sometimes it preloads files into memory so they load much
>> faster for you (based on your useage patterns). Sometimes it shuffles
>> files around on the hard disk to speed up the boot process.
>>
>> In other words, it's all good stuff. Just ignore it.
>>
>> Steve[/color]
>
>
> LoL you are really sellin' it hard ;P
>
> The thing is... YOU CANNOT IGNORE IT!!!!
>
> What if every other time you went for a drive someone would attach a
> 10ton trailer to your car that it would have to drag?... Just ignore it??[/color]

Steve is absolutely correct in all he said. Vista thru superfetch, over
a short period of time, "learns" your computer habits and "anticipates"
your needs. After a while, when superfetch has gathered all the info it
requires, the intermittent accessing of HDD stops.
It's like how the newer electronic transmissions learn your driving
habits and adapt to them.

Vista is a different OS. It is not XP. It's a new learning curve to get
to know.
Those of you who give it only a precursory glance and think it's nothing
more than an eye candied-up XP don't have a clue.
Frank

On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:06:21 -0700, Frank <fb@nospamm.cmm> wrote:
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>Steve is absolutely correct in all he said. Vista thru superfetch, over
>a short period of time, "learns" your computer habits and "anticipates"
>your needs.[/color]

Like generating a BSOD? Saying "Windows Explorer encountered a
unexpected problem and needs to close." or my personal favorite, Media
Player saying it needs a codec and coming back empty handed.

[url]http://www.thehumorarchives.com/joke/Windows_Error_Messages[/url]

[url]http://www-stu.cai.cam.ac.uk/~cjr43/errors/filing.html[/url]

I hope your strange question wasn't meant to be an answer to my question
.. . .


Bob wrote:[color=blue]
> So does this mean that when you purchase Vista and install it Microsoft has
> managed to load a little man with an angle grinder who works away on your
> hard drive ?
>
> "Daze N. Knights" wrote:
>[color=green]
>> When you say "constantly," to do mean "all of the time," or merely "often"?
>>
>> Daze
>> -----
>>
>> Early Spring wrote:[color=darkred]
>>> Beside the fact it is very annoying I'm curious as to why? Running
>>> Vista Home premium
>>>[/color][/color][/color]

Sounds like you may need more RAM.

"Daze N. Knights" <Daze@Microdot.dot> wrote in message
news:%23HFy5bjfHHA.3884@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
>I hope your strange question wasn't meant to be an answer to my question .
>. .
>
>
> Bob wrote:[color=green]
>> So does this mean that when you purchase Vista and install it Microsoft
>> has managed to load a little man with an angle grinder who works away on
>> your hard drive ?
>>
>> "Daze N. Knights" wrote:
>>[color=darkred]
>>> When you say "constantly," to do mean "all of the time," or merely
>>> "often"?
>>>
>>> Daze
>>> -----[/color][/color][/color]

No, often not constantly.
[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>>
>>> Early Spring wrote:
>>>> Beside the fact it is very annoying I'm curious as to why? Running
>>>> Vista Home premium
>>>>[/color][/color][/color]

"Mike" <jmgsjunkmail@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:ONo2dtnfHHA.4536@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> Sounds like you may need more RAM.[/color]

So 2 gb of ram isn't enough to run Vista?

2 gig should be enough.

I had previously assumed that you were merely complaining of a *busy*
hard drive (as evidenced by, for instance, a blinking hard drive LED).
But I gather now that you are actually complaining of an audibly noisy
hard drive. Is that correct? Because if so, your problem may be that the
hard drive itself is going bad.

Daze
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Early Spring wrote:[color=blue]
>
> "Daze N. Knights" <Daze@Microdot.dot> wrote in message
> news:%23HFy5bjfHHA.3884@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...[color=green]
>> I hope your strange question wasn't meant to be an answer to my
>> question . . .
>>
>>
>> Bob wrote:[color=darkred]
>>> So does this mean that when you purchase Vista and install it
>>> Microsoft has managed to load a little man with an angle grinder who
>>> works away on your hard drive ?
>>>
>>> "Daze N. Knights" wrote:
>>>
>>>> When you say "constantly," to do mean "all of the time," or merely
>>>> "often"?
>>>>
>>>> Daze
>>>> -----[/color][/color]
>
> No, often not constantly.
>[color=green][color=darkred]
>>>>
>>>> Early Spring wrote:
>>>>> Beside the fact it is very annoying I'm curious as to why? Running
>>>>> Vista Home premium
>>>>>[/color][/color]
>[/color]