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so here it goes; sometimes when (according to my task manager) not one program is running on my computer (virusscan and suchlike things are all disabled) my harddisk is busy a fuck with god knows what.. this HDD light on my computer is constantly on or flickering and i hear my harddisk is busy, what the hell kind of nonsense is this? is this normal or am i doomed? thx in advance |
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DOOMED |
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hehe i knew that would be the first reply after i typed that sentence :D and when i looked at the online list i also knew who was going to take care of the job |
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what OS are you running? |
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win xp professional |
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Wowzers you should turn professional psychic or summat. |
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or you should become less predictable |
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I was going to put that in my post, but decided not to. You really are psychic! Or just some stupid tit asking a ridiculous question which begged ridicule. |
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Cast your mind back, have you ever enabled the feature whereby it scans the HD during idle time to list the file structure to speed up searches? |
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not that i can remember no.. do you happen to know where that function is en/disabled? |
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according to my predictions you're gonna seek for a witty reply everytime i followup to you, so i hereby give you the last opportunity :) |
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I enabled it on mine and could never find it to disable it and since I reinstalled xp (for a different reason :) I've just never enabled it now. Ah found it- I'm too good to you morton... Search, Change preferences (bottom of left hand menu), "with indexing service" (second one down) read about it/disable it there. |
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cool! i'm not at home right now, so i can't see if it's enabled or not, but i think that might be it :) thanks a lot!! |
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task manager? |
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yes? |
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its perfectly normal don't worry about it |
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do you think my avatar looks like funkmaster? |
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HAHAHA! it does... anyways, i think Ceri JC was mentioning defrag? You should set that up as a sheduled task every sun night or so. (whenever you can spare the downtime from dling tunes or porn). Also, make sure you're not talking about the "applications (?)" view in your task manager. Try checking the processes tab, or the performance tab even. I'm sure you can figure things out from there. |
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no not defrag, i have cancelled all schedules there, i start that manually now and then, it's something else he meant i think. and i did check the different tabs in the task manager :) thanks for the advice though |
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Do you have Word/Office installed? It could be the file indexing service, as Ceri suggested. See what's in the startup folder too, as that might be running something in the background. |
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Do you only have a limited amount of RAM on your computer (<256MB) because if you do it is probably just the pagefile being sorted out and nothing to worry about. |
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as i said |
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i love being always right |
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