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Friday, September 5, 2003 at 6:13 am
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Posted by Keith (1 messages posted)

This was driving me crazy as well. I used Zone Alarm on my Notebook PC when I was running Windows ME with not problems. I installed Windows XP Pro and had the same problem with disk access. Shut down Zone Alarm, and the activity stopped.

On Wednesday, November 20, 2002 at 10:18 pm, Dale Wisely wrote:
>BINGO! This man has saved me froma nervous breakdown. Since installing XP, my HD
>had taken a beating from a sort of pulsing grind as has been described. Using this
>procedure I found that the second greatest use of CPU time was ZONE ALARM--the popular
>firewall thing. I disabled it and ...AHHHH...a silent hard drive at last.
>
>Dale
>
>

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Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk' (Luc: Thu, Apr 4, 2002, 11:13 am)

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