Vista makes my HDD noisy

[*^&%$$#*%!]

What is Vista doing accessing the HDD all the time? I thought maybe it was
defragging in the background so turned off scheduled defrag and my HDD is
still being accessed all the time. I like my PC to be as quiet as possible
and the noise of the HDD being accessed all the time is pissing me off. If I
turn off indexing will it stop it doing this or is it something else causing
it?

 

[S.SubZero]

Check the Services for anything involving an "Index" service or
"Search" service. Stop and then disable these services. I disabled
these and Vista got nice and quiet. Note that this will make
searching for files take longer. I personally get around this by
using the method of "not splattering files all over my hard drive." I
noticed that if I kept my files all in Documents, I seemed to know
exactly where all of my files were. BRILLIANT!

 

[Dustin Harper]

It is usually the indexing service that runs the hard drive for a while. It
does stop after a few days (or about a week). It makes searching faster, but
if you don't search much you can turn it off.

 

[Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]]

Maybe the disk is being indexed, could be your anti-virus utility scanning
in the background. Have you checked the Task Manager to see which processes
have highest memory usage and CPU cycles? Could help filter down the
problem. I would also run a scan using the AV or the built in Windows
Defender antispyware utility.

 

[Daddy Tadpole]

Check the Services for anything involving an "Index" service or
"Search" service. Stop and then disable these services. I disabled
these and Vista got nice and quiet. Note that this will make
searching for files take longer. I personally get around this by
using the method of "not splattering files all over my hard drive." I
noticed that if I kept my files all in Documents

That's a M$ invention that should have been scrapped before it was issued.
The most obvious objection is thatW*nd*ws has a Documents structure per
user, a totally stupid idea for any family or company that has more than one
memeber. Documents should go into the directory structure that you and only
you have decided and constructed. What will you do on that happy day (soon
to come...?) when we have at last a user-friendly alternative to M$
operating systems?

, I seemed to know

 

[NoStop]

It is usually the indexing service that runs the hard drive for a while.
It does stop after a few days (or about a week). It makes searching
faster, but if you don't search much you can turn it off.

It takes Fista a week to index the files that come installed in a fresh
install? I heard Fista was slow, but this is REALLY slow. Why do people use
this toy operating system?

Cheers.

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[Will_S]

What is Vista doing accessing the HDD all the time? I thought maybe it was
defragging in the background so turned off scheduled defrag and my HDD is
still being accessed all the time. I like my PC to be as quiet as possible
and the noise of the HDD being accessed all the time is pissing me off. If
I turn off indexing will it stop it doing this or is it something else
causing it?

I notice my HDD light flashing a lot but no noise whatsoever in my new
computer as I have two Samsungs that are deadly silent.

 

[*^&%$$#*%!]

I notice my HDD light flashing a lot but no noise whatsoever in my new
computer as I have two Samsungs that are deadly silent.

I have an older Maxtor and a Samsung. Older Maxtors were noisy. Vista is on
the Maxtor because I had Linux on the Samsung until yesterday.

 

[S.SubZero]

It takes Fista a week to index the files that come installed in a fresh
install? I heard Fista was slow, but this is REALLY slow. Why do people use
this toy operating system?

This was one of the odd things I never got any kind of answer to, even
from the die-hard Vista-heads. Why does a clean install on a freshly
formatted hard drive need to index anything? Should Vista not KNOW
what it comes with?

I don't mind Vista too much, but it's goofy things like this that
turned me off to it.

 

[Matt S]

How much RAM??? 2GB recommended should be changed to minimum HDD usually
get over-used when there is not enough RAM.

Good luck!

 

[Marc]

How much RAM??? 2GB recommended should be changed to minimum HDD
usually get over-used when there is not enough RAM.

More likely to be the indexing service. Turn it off, I have.

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/...ws-vista-search-indexer-and-indexing-service/

 

[Nonny]

Nope, that's not it. I have 2 Gig of RAM and shut off indexing service
as well as just about everything else I could safely shut off.

I'd really like MS to figure this thing out.

It's NOT a Microsoft problem or everyone here would have the same
complaint.

Capice?

It's something about YOUR setup... it might even be your antivirus
program trying to run every time you boot.

You need to run MSCONFIG and shutdown startup programs one-by-one and
then reboot to see if any of them being stopped helps the situation.