Hard drive working overtime

[cozm01]

My hard drive is working heavily even though I have no programs or windows open.. resource manager shows "system" is doing it, pretty vague.

 

[Darkaber]

Try runing anti virus maybe?

 

[tripitaka]

Could also be the indexing service - runs in the background indexing files on your hard disk to spped up searching, I think.
It can be safely disabled.

 

[Cosimo]

Yup, some indexing in the background.

 

[markyb]

Yeh, Sounds like indexing.

Have you got Windows Defender installed? My XP setup every now and then was thrashing the hard drive once the computer was left for a while, It turned up to be Windows Defender scanning the hard drive.

 

[dirtydog]

XP or Vista?

 

[Lysander]

If you're running Vista it's almost certain to be the indexing. I get the same thing when I boot up, hard drive goes nuts for about five minutes. It's a good thng!

 

[twoodster]

Yep, I've just installed Vista and seem to be having the manic hard disc activity too. Takes 3-4 minutes to stop!

 

[spb251272]

Could also partly be the Superfetch function, which loads your most frequent apps into memory so they start nice and quick when you need them

 

[No-One]

Could also be Windows Defender running a background scan.

 

[Burnsy2023]

Download the Sysinternals suite of programs. The process explorer, and process/disk monitor will tell you what's going on.

Burnsy