C drive activity

Does anyone know why my C-drive is always running even after start up has
ended? All my system says is that all this activity is in a "dick drive".
As far as I know none of my spy programs are updating. It seems to run for
tem minutes and then stops.

Indexing

Prefetch

Superfetch

Defragmenting

There are many things that go on in the background that you are unaware of.
They all make your system run better - in the long run. Short term is an
increased amount of time till your computer has stabilized.

The biggest effect is superfetch. The more RAM you have, the longer it will
take to populate the unused RAM. This will go on till available RAM is near
zero. The disk will churn away, loading what the O/S thinks you may be
wanting to do next. The more you use the computer the more accurate the
contents of the superfetch cache. Once in the superfetch cache the time to
start an application greatly decreases.

On my computer, with 2 gig of RAM, this takes about 3 minutes after I see
the desktop. I put in 4 gig as an experiment and it took over 5 minutes for
the computer to settle in.

I went back to 2 gig of RAM.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!



"Bob" <Bob@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:849BF337-28EF-411C-A5AD-D40C2ACB7DE7@microsoft.com...
> Does anyone know why my C-drive is always running even after start up has
> ended? All my system says is that all this activity is in a "dick drive".
> As far as I know none of my spy programs are updating. It seems to run
> for
> tem minutes and then stops.

the indexing service is running, for the quick search to work.
It looks in your documents folder if files have been changed, or added.

You can disable Windows search via services.msc and set in folder options to
"always search file names only" - which resembles how search in XP was done.

also notice that disk defrag is running silently on schedule - type defrag
in the search field on startmenu,start it and uncheck "automatic".

there are even more things running in background like defender.

That is why the resources go up that high..

SJ /germany


"Bob" <Bob@discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:849BF337-28EF-411C-A5AD-D40C2ACB7DE7@microsoft.com...
> Does anyone know why my C-drive is always running even after start up has
> ended? All my system says is that all this activity is in a "dick drive".
> As far as I know none of my spy programs are updating. It seems to run
> for
> tem minutes and then stops.