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Thursday, April 4, 2002 at 1:31 pm
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Posted by HC (935 messages posted)

You need to go to Administrative Tools ,Services,when there scroll down the list of services untill you get to Indexing Service,double click this entry,on the general tab in the Startup type window select Disabled then the Stop button then apply & OK That should stop the disk thrashing Cheers HC

On Thursday, April 4, 2002 at 11:13 am, Luc wrote: >I have a question about Stop >Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk:

> > >I have XP Pro and I have done the steps on this page, however the hard drive light >still blanks wildly. How can I stop this? It really degrades my performance, not >to mention that it's really annoying! Please help!

Written in response to:: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk' (Luc: Thursday, April 4, 2002 at 11:13 am)

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