Hard drive runs continuously

[Tom Milne]

My hard drive is running all the time after startup.
System still works but is very slow. Any ideas?

 

[Dave Patrick]

You can use Task Manager and or Performance Monitor to see what process is
consuming the cpu/mem

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Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]
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| My hard drive is running all the time after startup.
| System still works but is very slow. Any ideas?

 

[Tom Milne]

The only processes running are System Idle Process, and
inetinfo.exe seems to be running occasionally
Tom

 

[Dave Patrick]

Since you're running inetinfo.exe you must also be running some combination
of an ftp server, nntp server and or some other component of IIS which may
be the cause.

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect.

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| The only processes running are System Idle Process, and
| inetinfo.exe seems to be running occasionally
| Tom

 

[Guest]

And here's a neat twist - when I open Internet Explorer,
the hard drive stops and functions normally - when I close
IE, it's starts spinning again. It's not FindFast indexing
either