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Early Spring
Beside the fact it is very annoying I'm curious as to why? Running Vista
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Per
Welcome to Vista! I too am very annoyed that Vista sometimes grinds away at
my HD. Even though I disabled seach index. It messes up my performance.
my HD. Even though I disabled seach index. It messes up my performance.
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Steve Thackery
Blimey, some people get annoyed by little things!
It's doing what all good operating systems do. Some of the activity is due
to scheduled disk defragmentation. Some is the search and indexing system
(though this diminishes to almost zero after a few days). Sometimes it
preloads files into memory so they load much faster for you (based on your
useage patterns). Sometimes it shuffles files around on the hard disk to
speed up the boot process.
In other words, it's all good stuff. Just ignore it.
Steve
It's doing what all good operating systems do. Some of the activity is due
to scheduled disk defragmentation. Some is the search and indexing system
(though this diminishes to almost zero after a few days). Sometimes it
preloads files into memory so they load much faster for you (based on your
useage patterns). Sometimes it shuffles files around on the hard disk to
speed up the boot process.
In other words, it's all good stuff. Just ignore it.
Steve
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Daze N. Knights
When you say "constantly," to do mean "all of the time," or merely "often"?
Daze
Daze
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Per
Steve Thackery said:Blimey, some people get annoyed by little things!
It's doing what all good operating systems do. Some of the activity is
due to scheduled disk defragmentation. Some is the search and indexing
system (though this diminishes to almost zero after a few days).
Sometimes it preloads files into memory so they load much faster for you
(based on your useage patterns). Sometimes it shuffles files around on
the hard disk to speed up the boot process.
In other words, it's all good stuff. Just ignore it.
Steve
LoL you are really sellin' it hard ;P
The thing is... YOU CANNOT IGNORE IT!!!!
What if every other time you went for a drive someone would attach a 10ton
trailer to your car that it would have to drag?... Just ignore it??
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Guest
So does this mean that when you purchase Vista and install it Microsoft has
managed to load a little man with an angle grinder who works away on your
hard drive ?
managed to load a little man with an angle grinder who works away on your
hard drive ?
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Michael Chare
Early Spring said:Beside the fact it is very annoying I'm curious as to why? Running Vista
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I have a Samsung Spinpoint. It is very quiet - no clicking.
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Frank
Per said:LoL you are really sellin' it hard ;P
The thing is... YOU CANNOT IGNORE IT!!!!
What if every other time you went for a drive someone would attach a
10ton trailer to your car that it would have to drag?... Just ignore it??
Steve is absolutely correct in all he said. Vista thru superfetch, over
a short period of time, "learns" your computer habits and "anticipates"
your needs. After a while, when superfetch has gathered all the info it
requires, the intermittent accessing of HDD stops.
It's like how the newer electronic transmissions learn your driving
habits and adapt to them.
Vista is a different OS. It is not XP. It's a new learning curve to get
to know.
Those of you who give it only a precursory glance and think it's nothing
more than an eye candied-up XP don't have a clue.
Frank
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Adam Albright
Steve is absolutely correct in all he said. Vista thru superfetch, over
a short period of time, "learns" your computer habits and "anticipates"
your needs.
Like generating a BSOD? Saying "Windows Explorer encountered a
unexpected problem and needs to close." or my personal favorite, Media
Player saying it needs a codec and coming back empty handed.
http://www.thehumorarchives.com/joke/Windows_Error_Messages
http://www-stu.cai.cam.ac.uk/~cjr43/errors/filing.html
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Daze N. Knights
I hope your strange question wasn't meant to be an answer to my question
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Mike
Sounds like you may need more RAM.
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Early Spring
Daze N. Knights said:I hope your strange question wasn't meant to be an answer to my question .
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No, often not constantly.
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Early Spring
Mike said:Sounds like you may need more RAM.
So 2 gb of ram isn't enough to run Vista?
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Mike
2 gig should be enough.
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Daze N. Knights
I had previously assumed that you were merely complaining of a *busy*
hard drive (as evidenced by, for instance, a blinking hard drive LED).
But I gather now that you are actually complaining of an audibly noisy
hard drive. Is that correct? Because if so, your problem may be that the
hard drive itself is going bad.
Daze
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hard drive (as evidenced by, for instance, a blinking hard drive LED).
But I gather now that you are actually complaining of an audibly noisy
hard drive. Is that correct? Because if so, your problem may be that the
hard drive itself is going bad.
Daze
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Guest
My Hard drive is constantly blinking while I'm away from the computer.
Never when I'm actually using it. You say this should go away in a few days?
I'm concerned about this is all... it's not super noisy, but the light never
ever stops when I'm away.
It's great when I use the computer, please advise, thank you
Jack Griffin
Never when I'm actually using it. You say this should go away in a few days?
I'm concerned about this is all... it's not super noisy, but the light never
ever stops when I'm away.
It's great when I use the computer, please advise, thank you
Jack Griffin
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Daze N. Knights
If your hard drive LED continually blinks at the rate of about one blink
per second, consider temporarily disconnecting your CD/DVD drive(s) to
see if the blinking ceases to be constant. That was the case with me,
and when I reconnected my DVD drives, the continual blinking (about once
per second) resumed.
Daze
per second, consider temporarily disconnecting your CD/DVD drive(s) to
see if the blinking ceases to be constant. That was the case with me,
and when I reconnected my DVD drives, the continual blinking (about once
per second) resumed.
Daze
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Early Spring
Daze N. Knights said:I had previously assumed that you were merely complaining of a *busy* hard
drive (as evidenced by, for instance, a blinking hard drive LED). But I
gather now that you are actually complaining of an audibly noisy hard
drive. Is that correct? Because if so, your problem may be that the hard
drive itself is going bad.
Daze
Hmm...I sure hope not. I don't even have an led for the hard drive, every
other computer I own has one. It's brand new with a good warranty (I hope).
It's my first Dell.
It doesn't seem too loud just super busy.
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Daze N. Knights
And you're judging the HD's business by the sounds it makes . . . ?
Daze
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Daze
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Early Spring
Daze N. Knights said:And you're judging the HD's business by the sounds it makes . . . ?
Daze
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I suppose I am. It clicks and plunks, sounds active.
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