And if it is not a new machine? I have the same experience and I have been
running mine for a month or more. I see constant spikes in CPU usage usually
associated with a display program but when I stop the process it continues to
run and locks up when I play movies. 3Ghz dualcore AMD.
I know Vista is great but do you have any REAL answers that might help a
person not wanting to spend all day in chat rooms to figure out if his HP is
a dog or is Vista the problem. Could it be Defender? I have Norton so I
shut Defender down and it seemed to help with the DVDs locking up. And now
it is not so irritating.
Soorry for going on so but it ahs been a month now and my old Pentium 3 with
Windows ME was better.
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ACK


"Dave" wrote:

> I don't notice this, because I leave my desktop on all the time, so it gets
> to do the grunt work (indexing, virus scanning, etc.) during the night when
> I'm not using it.
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> "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.
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