re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk' Wednesday, August 20, 2003 at 11:40 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Ben Trovato (16 messages posted) Have you ran your up to date anti-virus software recently? Also run adaware or spybot to remove spyware. If that shows clear set to turn off hard drives after x secs in control panel/power options On Wednesday, August 20, 2003 at 10:59 am, Dirk Mouss wrote: >I have a question about Stop >Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk: >When my computer is on and I'm not using it, the hard drive activity light repeatedly >shows drive access every two seconds or so, continually. The fragmentation % of >my hard drive seems to go up fast, even with minimal usage. Last night I used Speed > Disk from NU and though it usually winds up with a 1-2% fragmemtation residual, >nowadays it's more like 5-6% after sitting overnight without my use. Is there some >way to stop this continual undirected disk access? Thanks! > Written in response to: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk' (Dirk Mouss: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 at 10:59 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk' (Dirk Mouss: Wed, Aug 20, 2003, 10:59 am) re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk' (Ricer46: Wed, Aug 20, 2003, 11:32 am) re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk' (Ben Trovato: Wed, Aug 20, 2003, 11:40 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum