"Ryan Hayward" <rghayward@upnaway.com.au> wrote in message
news:u8pC3R5uHHA.536@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> I've noticed that since switching over to Vista, my hard-drive's activity
> light is always
> active. I've been told that its Vista indexing the drives or maybe the
> Disk Defragmenter but
> it really never stops, not even if the 'puter's been on for ages and is
> idle.
>
> Should I be concerned as I really don't want to go through a new
> hard-drive so quickly....
>
> Seems to be a big concern with a lot of other people too, if you do a
> google search on
> Vista hard drive never stops or similar.....


What flavor of Vista? What's your hardware setup? RAM? Video card and video
RAM? Video RAM dedicated or shared with system?

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