after opening a folder

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I have noticed that after doing something as simple as opening a folder,
there is 15-30 seconds of intermittant writing to the drive. I disabled
indexing but that did not help. How can one stop or limit that intermittant
writing to the drive?
 
b11_ said:
I have noticed that after doing something as simple as opening a folder,
there is 15-30 seconds of intermittant writing to the drive. I disabled
indexing but that did not help. How can one stop or limit that
intermittant
writing to the drive?
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Power down the PC and the intermittant writing will stop :-)

What does it matter if there is disk activity? The OS is doing many things
behind the scene. Don't worry about it unless the activity chews up 70% +
of your CPU for an extended amount of time.
 
It depends on what you have stored in the folder, if you have lot videos or
images, then you are likely to see a significant increase in CPU utilization,
since it has to do things like render image and video previews.
 
But after doing something as simple as opening a window, _then_ there is
15-30 seconds of intermittant _WRITING_-to-disk. Only essential services are
running, the start folder is empty, and task scheduler is disabled.
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I am trying to find-out why there is intermittant writing to disk after doing
something as simple as opening a window on the desktop. The writing-to-disk
happens under Vista and Wxp but not under W98. Only essential services are
running. It is a mystery.
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Indexing is disabled.

What I have observed is intermittant _WRITING_, not reading, to disk.

I'll disable superfetch and see what happens.
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