"David" <david@invalid.com> wrote in message
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Typical processes that thrash the hard drive are:
>
> 1. Prefetch
> 2. Defrag
> 3. Indexing
> 4. Virus programs for some time after boot up.
>
> I found that for some time after eaach bootup, Prefetch caused a lot of
> disk activity. You can stop those services by running services.msc and
> selecting a service and changing it's Startup Type to "disabled".
>
> Dave

Dave
I think you hit it with 3. Indexing. Also thanks for the services
reference - I couldn't for the life of me remember where I'd stopped them in
the past.
PeterK