"Alan" <alan111@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:eQbuIo26HHA.4736@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
> I've used all versions of Windows for many years. Since buying a new
> machine withe Vista installed I have one complaint with it.
> The hard drive seems to never stop. I can turn on the machine from cold
> and just do literally nothing at all and the hard drive will still be
> rattling away 45 minutes later.
> I've been on to Hewlet Packard and got no joy from them.
> Is it index system on Vista constantly updating? It's really getting on my
> nerves listening to it. There can't be any reason why the HD needs to be
> operating virtually all the time like this,
> Any ideas?
> In hope,
> Alan.

If it's a new machine it's probably still indexing the files for faster
searching.

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