Hard Drive continuously running

[Marty]

I have a Sony Vaio notebook computer. I just loaded Vista on Friday. When
the notebook is plugged in the hard drive light flickers non-stop. If I go
to the Resource Monitor the Disk graph shows lots of activity. If I unplug
the computer and run off the battery the disk activity stops. Does anyone
know why this is doing this?

-Marty

 

[kirk jim]

yeah some services like search indexing and automatic defragment,
work in the background.. however vista knows when its running on battery
and stops those services so it wont drain your battery fast...

vista is smart.... NO.. wait.. vista is stupid!

It should have those dreaded services on by default in the first place! lol

 

[Dustin Harper]

The indexing service runs to make searches faster when you are not using
your machine. It usually does this when your power is on AC to conserve the
battery.

If you don't use the built in search, you can disable the indexing service.

And by default, on Wednesday morning, it may be going wild due to the defrag
automatically doing its job.

 

[Marty]

Thank you very much,

I just look at the laptop and the drive activity has stopped. It must have
finished its defrag and indexing.

Thanks again,
-Marty

 

[Rich]

vista is smart.... NO.. wait.. vista is stupid!

gets hard to keep it all straight, doesn't it?


Rich