Vist Hard Drive Activity

I turn Windows Defender off so seriously how do I get this thing to stop
running all the time. I can't help but think it is going to wear out.
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ACK


"Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM" wrote:

> "ACK" <ACK@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:F8561BEA-7B98-4D8A-91D1-26BD3E934694@microsoft.com...
> > Seriously foks my machine has been running now for almost an hour. By the
> > way why all the updates. I seem to get one or two a day?
>
>
> Windows Defender updates quite often.
>
> --
> Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
> Do not send mail.
>

Yes, but the problem is that if you use Vista in a Notebook, and you
do a lot of presentations to customers in different locations daily,
with a lot of hibernate-resume processes (or shutdown-restart ones),
you cannot wait ten to twenty minutes after each resume or restart
process until Vista finish to do tasks that they are disturbing to you
in these situations. You have little control on that, starting about
how to know what hell is Vista doing with that lot of background
activity.

Definitively, Vista is a lot less productive for a road runner
Notebook user than XP.

"Dave" <dave@beepbeep.com> 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.
>
>
>
>
>"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.
Thanks
Juan I. Cahis
Santiago de Chile (South America)
Note: Please forgive me for my bad English, I am trying to improve it!

Try turning all that stuff off. Go to the Control Panel\Administrative
Tools\Services and turn off Superfetch,Windows Indexing, and Windows
Update. I got my hard drive down to a quick blink every 2 sec rather
then a long blink for half a sec every sec.


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Thanks a lot Steph. I understand the Windows Indexing and Windows
Update features, but what will I loose if I disable Superfetch? Can
Superfetch and Windows Indexing be allowed to run in a certain hour
interval only, for example during night?

Steph <Steph.2wlffj@DoNotSpam.com> wrote:

>
>Try turning all that stuff off. Go to the Control Panel\Administrative
>Tools\Services and turn off Superfetch,Windows Indexing, and Windows
>Update. I got my hard drive down to a quick blink every 2 sec rather
>then a long blink for half a sec every sec.
Thanks
Juan I. Cahis
Santiago de Chile (South America)
Note: Please forgive me for my bad English, I am trying to improve it!

Steph wrote:
> Try turning all that stuff off. Go to the Control Panel\Administrative
> Tools\Services and turn off Superfetch,Windows Indexing, and Windows
> Update. I got my hard drive down to a quick blink every 2 sec rather
> then a long blink for half a sec every sec.
>
>

Not read the thread but also my computer, right click on a drive and go
to properties. Uncheck "Index this drive" etc. This apparently is not
the same as turning windows indexing off.

ACK wrote:
> I turn Windows Defender off so seriously how do I get this thing to stop
> running all the time. I can't help but think it is going to wear out.

2Gb of RAM really helps and get a Core2 DUO or Athon 64x2 proc. I
finally have a system that runs good but the hardware specs are out of
sight.

Steve, I have the same thing on my Vista Home Prem. machine. It should slow
down after a week or so but mine is a month old and still does it. Your right
it does not affect sys prefromance and I don't have a problem with putting a
new primary drive every 6 months even. It's the hassle you have after
replacing the drive getting Vista re-activated that gets me PO'ed.

-Sid

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Sid
"The force be with you"


"Steve Thackery" wrote:

> Chill, it's just doing it's thing. Indexing mostly, but also Superfetch,
> startup optimisation and defragging at various times.
>
> It'll get much better after a week or so when everything has settled down.
> Meanwhile, the indexing runs at the lowest I/O and CPU priorities, so
> shouldn't slow down your work.
>
> Steve
>
>
>

Frank, I too have the same problem with the HD activity is just too much at
IDLE.
I know that low sys. res. can casue this but like some of the other posts
here I'm running a Gigabyte Mobo AMD 4400+ w/ 4gb RAM SATA HD ....basically
the fastest machine I have had since DOS 3.0. I cut the indexing service off
and it slowed it down. I know that sometimes the size of the system.dat file
on sys in the past would get so large that it looked as if it would cause
that problem but this is just too much.
I can live with the HD replacement every once in a while, it's just the
Hassle of re-activating the OS. I have an OEM version of Vista Home Prem. and
with OEM you get no support, phone support that is.
Any other suggestions?
Sid
"The force be with you"


"ACK" wrote:

> I turn Windows Defender off so seriously how do I get this thing to stop
> running all the time. I can't help but think it is going to wear out.
> --
> ACK
>
>
> "Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM" wrote:
>
> > "ACK" <ACK@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:F8561BEA-7B98-4D8A-91D1-26BD3E934694@microsoft.com...
> > > Seriously foks my machine has been running now for almost an hour. By the
> > > way why all the updates. I seem to get one or two a day?
> >
> >
> > Windows Defender updates quite often.
> >
> > --
> > Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
> > Do not send mail.
> >

How old is the machine? Could it be defragging in the background?

"Sid" <Sid@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:ADA4664E-CFEF-4BA7-AF42-E76E264B2083@microsoft.com...
> Frank, I too have the same problem with the HD activity is just too much
> at
> IDLE.
> I know that low sys. res. can casue this but like some of the other posts
> here I'm running a Gigabyte Mobo AMD 4400+ w/ 4gb RAM SATA HD
> ....basically
> the fastest machine I have had since DOS 3.0. I cut the indexing service
> off
> and it slowed it down. I know that sometimes the size of the system.dat
> file
> on sys in the past would get so large that it looked as if it would cause
> that problem but this is just too much.
> I can live with the HD replacement every once in a while, it's just the
> Hassle of re-activating the OS. I have an OEM version of Vista Home Prem.
> and
> with OEM you get no support, phone support that is.
> Any other suggestions?
> Sid
> "The force be with you"
>
>
> "ACK" wrote:
>
>> I turn Windows Defender off so seriously how do I get this thing to stop
>> running all the time. I can't help but think it is going to wear out.
>> --
>> ACK
>>
>>
>> "Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM" wrote:
>>
>> > "ACK" <ACK@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> > news:F8561BEA-7B98-4D8A-91D1-26BD3E934694@microsoft.com...
>> > > Seriously foks my machine has been running now for almost an hour.
>> > > By the
>> > > way why all the updates. I seem to get one or two a day?
>> >
>> >
>> > Windows Defender updates quite often.

"Sid" <Sid@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A2FBF794-E3A2-4C7A-B1B0-3C6868541475@microsoft.com...
> Steve, I have the same thing on my Vista Home Prem. machine. It should
> slow
> down after a week or so but mine is a month old and still does it. Your
> right
> it does not affect sys prefromance and I don't have a problem with putting
> a
> new primary drive every 6 months even. It's the hassle you have after
> replacing the drive getting Vista re-activated that gets me PO'ed.

Why would you have to replace your disk every 6 months?