Vista Premium V My Hard Drive

I'm about to drop Vista and revert to XP. This is my last try and I hope
somone here can help.

I have one of those computers without a fan and all I can hear is the hard
drive clicking away continuously for hours at a time. As a writer, I find it
difficcult to write with that going on. I have turned off the indexing and
everything I can think of that might be doing it yet still it goes on and on
searching or polling the drive. I can see nothing that looks like it might
be doing it in the running processes. Can anyone shed some light on what
might be doing it, please?

AnophelesOz

Hi,

At a guess? I'd say the defrag routine.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"Anopheles" <hison@coolcats.net.au> wrote in message
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>
> I'm about to drop Vista and revert to XP. This is my last try and I hope
> somone here can help.
>
> I have one of those computers without a fan and all I can hear is the hard
> drive clicking away continuously for hours at a time. As a writer, I find
> it difficcult to write with that going on. I have turned off the indexing
> and everything I can think of that might be doing it yet still it goes on
> and on searching or polling the drive. I can see nothing that looks like
> it might be doing it in the running processes. Can anyone shed some light
> on what might be doing it, please?
>
> AnophelesOz
>

"Rick Rogers" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> At a guess? I'd say the defrag routine.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
>
Yes, I do appreciate it can only be guesswork with so many possibilities.
Thank you, Rick. I will look at it again but I've given away using that
computer for awhile because the hard drive literally never stops working. I
know I had Diskeeper turned off.

Anopheles


Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
> My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
>
> "Anopheles" <hison@coolcats.net.au> wrote in message
> news:OiteVaJQIHA.5976@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>>
>> I'm about to drop Vista and revert to XP. This is my last try and I hope
>> somone here can help.
>>
>> I have one of those computers without a fan and all I can hear is the
>> hard drive clicking away continuously for hours at a time. As a writer, I
>> find it difficcult to write with that going on. I have turned off the
>> indexing and everything I can think of that might be doing it yet still
>> it goes on and on searching or polling the drive. I can see nothing that
>> looks like it might be doing it in the running processes. Can anyone shed
>> some light on what might be doing it, please?
>>
>> AnophelesOz
>>
>