Disk activity on screensaver

[Guest]

Vista Premium: Whenever my PC brings up the screensaver, or goes into monitor
standby, the disk drive goes nuts - constant activity!

This is a very clean machine - just Vista Premium, an antivirus which is not
set to run disk scans in the background (Avast), and an photography/art
package(Astroart). The machine has been installed for over 10 days so all the
file indexing should be completed.

Any ideas?

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

Probably the low priority defrag routine kicking in.

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[Guest]

Turn off the screen saver. There is no reason to have it turned on as you
can't get burn in on a up to date monitor unless you have a plasma screen.

In fact, the screen savers now a days use more processing power than the
computers on the lunar landers did back in the 1970's.

If you are really concerned about it, just set the power saver options to
power off the monitor after a period of time.

 

[Guest]

It was the defrag' routine, and as I have about 2Tb of old data disks
connected it did take a good few hours to run.

Thanks.