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re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk' Monday, November 4, 2002 at 6:15 pm Posted by Steve (590 messages posted) One thing that was missed is any program on the PC can become corrupted in a way as to cause the harddrive to run continuesly. I had a freeware program do that. Called the Weaterbug. I found it by trial and error uninstalling the most recently installed programs. As soon as the weather bug was uninstalled the harddrive returned to normal. On Monday, November 4, 2002 at 4:40 pm, Josh wrote: >I have a question about Stop >Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk: > >I have read the article about Stopping windows from wildly accesssing your hard disk. >it gave suggestions for all the windows platforms but not for XP. if anyone has any >suggestions on how to configure or fix the problem i would be ver appreciative. >It was only recently that this problem occured where running any program would max >out my computers performance. and all operations become very choppy. > >thank you for your help [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk' Tuesday, November 5, 2002 at 6:37 am Posted by Chip (161 messages posted) Try disabling the indexing service. C On Monday, November 4, 2002 at 6:15 pm, Steve wrote: >One thing that was missed is any program on the PC >can become corrupted in a way as to cause the >harddrive to run continuesly. I had a freeware program >do that. Called the Weaterbug. I found it by trial and >error uninstalling the most recently installed programs. >As soon as the weather bug was uninstalled the harddrive returned to normal. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk' Sunday, August 10, 2003 at 10:04 pm Posted by Karyn (1 messages posted) How do you disable the indexing service? On Tuesday, November 5, 2002 at 6:37 am, Chip wrote: >Try disabling the indexing service. > >C > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk' Tuesday, October 7, 2003 at 11:57 am Posted by Allard (2 messages posted) You shoul open 'My Computer' and right click on any of the hard disks. In 'properties' you'll find the option to index your drive. Simply disable it. You may want to do this for all disks, but for data disks the indexing service speeds up any search action.. On Sunday, August 10, 2003 at 10:04 pm, Karyn wrote: >How do you disable the indexing service? > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum