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01-10-2008, 09:58 AM
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Corrupt Techie Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 752
|  Vista Home Premium Hard Drive is constantly in use!
My HDD LED is constant flickering, even when the PC is idle.
I was wondering if anyone knew which settings or services are using my hard drive almost non-stop...
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01-10-2008, 10:14 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: C:\Windows\System32 Posts: 25,730
| Re: Vista Home Premium Hard Drive is constantly in use!
Turn off indexing.
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01-10-2008, 10:23 AM
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True Techie Join Date: May 2006 Location: USA Posts: 171
| Re: Vista Home Premium Hard Drive is constantly in use!
How much RAM do you have? Your HDD will spin a lot because virtual memory on your HDD is needed if not enough RAM is installed. Just something to check.
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01-10-2008, 01:07 PM
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Corrupt Techie Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 752
| Re: Vista Home Premium Hard Drive is constantly in use!
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Originally Posted by Makaveli213  Turn off indexing. | From what I can tell, Indexing comes default as off? Quote:
Originally Posted by helix2301 How much RAM do you have? Your HDD will spin a lot because virtual memory on your HDD is needed if not enough RAM is installed. Just something to check. | 4GB of RAM... so that shouldn't be a problem.
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01-10-2008, 02:05 PM
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True Techie Join Date: May 2006 Location: USA Posts: 171
| Re: Vista Home Premium Hard Drive is constantly in use!
Check for a virus or spyware that is a common problem that can cause HDD to spin up when PC is idle.
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01-10-2008, 02:50 PM
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Super Techie Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Franklin, WI Posts: 431
| Re: Vista Home Premium Hard Drive is constantly in use!
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Originally Posted by aetherh4cker From what I can tell, Indexing comes default as off?
| It comes on by default...why would they be talking about how easy/fast searches are if it was off?
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01-10-2008, 09:29 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: C:\Windows\System32 Posts: 25,730
| Re: Vista Home Premium Hard Drive is constantly in use!
MetalOwns is right. Indexing is ON by default. I would not have told you to turn off indexing if it was off by default...It has been the default to be ON since it was introduced in Windows 2000. It is even on in Windows XP.
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01-10-2008, 09:31 PM
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Retired. Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Los Angeles, California Posts: 8,090
| Re: Vista Home Premium Hard Drive is constantly in use!
My XP indexing is OFF by default.
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01-10-2008, 09:41 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: C:\Windows\System32 Posts: 25,730
| Re: Vista Home Premium Hard Drive is constantly in use!
It shouldnt be. All Indexing shoudl be on by default. This is a thing M$ has built into Windows since 2000. Believe me i have answered this question about XP and Vista for the better part of a year in newsgroups for M$ and thru various forums. It shoudl be on by default. If it isnt either A. You got it from BitTorrent and they disabled it or B. You already disabled it and didnt realize it.
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01-10-2008, 10:59 PM
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Retired. Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Los Angeles, California Posts: 8,090
| Re: Vista Home Premium Hard Drive is constantly in use!
But I have a legit shiny orange front XP Home SP2 disc that installs with indexing off by default 
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