IE8 makes my disk light flash

[beccy]

I normally use Firefox but recently I installed IE8.

If I launch IE8 then my hard disk starts to do a lot of work all the
time while IE8 is launched. Even if I don't browse anything, IE8
makes the disk active.

When I close IE8 the disk activity stops.

What is happening and how can I stop it?

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I hope IE8 isn't trying to index its way through my disk data
because I have 500 GB!

Could IE8 be downloading a lot of data to identify dangerous web
sites? I can't see any data being downloaded. (Maybe Windows is
doing the same sort of download it uses for hotfixes and that
doesn't show on Netlimiter utility.)

 

[Bob I]

There is separate groups for Internet Explorer

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

Post here for assistance:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general
==
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002
www.banthecheck.com

 

[mm]

Post here for assistance:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general

Some non-microsoft newsservers carry many or all MS newsgroups, so she
may well be able to find it on her current list of ngs from another
servier.

Under the same name: microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

Who asked you?

Some non-microsoft newsservers carry many or all MS newsgroups, so she
may well be able to find it on her current list of ngs from another
servier.

Under the same name: microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general

 

[Bill in Co.]

Joey?

Who asked you?

 

[mm]

Who asked you?

Did I say something to annoy you? What?

 

[Daave]

Some non-microsoft newsservers carry many or all MS newsgroups, so she
may well be able to find it on her current list of ngs from another
servier.

Under the same name: microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general

Since OP is using Eternal-September, this link should work for her, too:

news://news.eternal-september.org/microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general