Intermittent hard drive activity

Biggest offender I found doing this was my firewall
application, busy updating log files. I since turned off
logging for all except "hacking attempts"

>-----Original Message-----
>We have Windows XP Professional, all service
>packs/updates installed, on a Dell Optiplex GX1, Maxtor
>91360u4 hard drive. While the computer is on and no one
>is using it, it intermittently accesses the hard drive,
>once every, say, few minutes. Any suggestions for
>stopping this seemingly never-ending (but nevertheless
>intermitten) hard drive activity?
>.
>

Sounds like you have "indexing" switched on.

Switch it off and that will reduce HD activity (I forget how but enter
"indexing" into help system and that will tell you how).

I've found indexing provides very little added functionality.

Bobby

"Bruce Fleming" <bf250604@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> We have Windows XP Professional, all service
> packs/updates installed, on a Dell Optiplex GX1, Maxtor
> 91360u4 hard drive. While the computer is on and no one
> is using it, it intermittently accesses the hard drive,
> once every, say, few minutes. Any suggestions for
> stopping this seemingly never-ending (but nevertheless
> intermitten) hard drive activity?

"Bruce Fleming" <bf250604@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:042a01c3c1bb$3f2c0340$a001280a@phx.gbl...

: We have Windows XP Professional, all service
: packs/updates installed, on a Dell Optiplex GX1, Maxtor
: 91360u4 hard drive. While the computer is on and no one
: is using it, it intermittently accesses the hard drive,
: once every, say, few minutes. Any suggestions for
: stopping this seemingly never-ending (but nevertheless
: intermitten) hard drive activity?

Are you sure that this is HDD activity. It may be polling
your CD/DVD drives.