Hello

I bought myself a new Dell XPS 420 computer on the 19th april,

And i can hear the harddrive running all the time, even when the PC is doing
nothing.

i have turned off indexing, that search thing, and auto defrag and also the
superper frech thing

but still it is running at 100%.

if i check the monitoring tools it shows it at 100% all the time.

i left the machine on for 3 days doing nothing, and still hd is running at
100%

i cant do that much with the thing, it can take 5min to copy a 10mb file on
the desktop to my documents folder.

I have done a totaly reinstall (and disbaled the above services), and again
still running at 100% all the time

the machine specs, are quad 2.6ghz, 3gb ram, 750gb hd.

i have also noticed that the avalible memory is 10mb when checking on task
manager.

(i have also installed windows xp pro, and this works all ok, so i am guess
it is something to do with vista)

anyone have any ideas to why, and how to stop it, as it is driving me nuts

thanks

Andy

What edition of Vista and how much memory?

"Andy" wrote in message
...
Hello

I bought myself a new Dell XPS 420 computer on the 19th april,

And i can hear the harddrive running all the time, even when the PC is
doing nothing.

i have turned off indexing, that search thing, and auto defrag and also
the superper frech thing

but still it is running at 100%.

if i check the monitoring tools it shows it at 100% all the time.

i left the machine on for 3 days doing nothing, and still hd is running at
100%

i cant do that much with the thing, it can take 5min to copy a 10mb file
on the desktop to my documents folder.

I have done a totaly reinstall (and disbaled the above services), and
again still running at 100% all the time

the machine specs, are quad 2.6ghz, 3gb ram, 750gb hd.

i have also noticed that the avalible memory is 10mb when checking on task
manager.

(i have also installed windows xp pro, and this works all ok, so i am
guess it is something to do with vista)

anyone have any ideas to why, and how to stop it, as it is driving me nuts

thanks

Andy

Andy;697872 Wrote:
Hello

I bought myself a new Dell XPS 420 computer on the 19th april,

And i can hear the harddrive running all the time, even when the PC is
doing
nothing.

i have turned off indexing, that search thing, and auto defrag and also
the
superper frech thing

but still it is running at 100%.

if i check the monitoring tools it shows it at 100% all the time.

i left the machine on for 3 days doing nothing, and still hd is running
at
100%

i cant do that much with the thing, it can take 5min to copy a 10mb
file on
the desktop to my documents folder.

I have done a totaly reinstall (and disbaled the above services), and
again
still running at 100% all the time

the machine specs, are quad 2.6ghz, 3gb ram, 750gb hd.

i have also noticed that the avalible memory is 10mb when checking on
task
manager.

(i have also installed windows xp pro, and this works all ok, so i am
guess
it is something to do with vista)

anyone have any ideas to why, and how to stop it, as it is driving me
nuts

thanks

Andy

Hi Andy,

It could be the Index running in the background updating itself, or
Disk Defragmenter running on a schedule in the background to.

These tutorials will show you how to disable these as a test to see:

Index:
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/69...e-disable.html

Disk Defragmenter Schedule:
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/72...ragmenter.html


These options can help improve the performance of Vista as well.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/81...nce-vista.html


Hope this helps,
Shawn


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I am running vista home premium, and it has 3gb of ram.

Andy


"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message
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What edition of Vista and how much memory?

"Andy" wrote in message
...
Hello

I bought myself a new Dell XPS 420 computer on the 19th april,

And i can hear the harddrive running all the time, even when the PC is
doing nothing.

i have turned off indexing, that search thing, and auto defrag and also
the superper frech thing

but still it is running at 100%.

if i check the monitoring tools it shows it at 100% all the time.

i left the machine on for 3 days doing nothing, and still hd is running
at 100%

i cant do that much with the thing, it can take 5min to copy a 10mb file
on the desktop to my documents folder.

I have done a totaly reinstall (and disbaled the above services), and
again still running at 100% all the time

the machine specs, are quad 2.6ghz, 3gb ram, 750gb hd.

i have also noticed that the avalible memory is 10mb when checking on
task manager.

(i have also installed windows xp pro, and this works all ok, so i am
guess it is something to do with vista)

anyone have any ideas to why, and how to stop it, as it is driving me
nuts

thanks

Andy

Hello

this is where is it saying it is running 100% of the time.

lots of system files, (100's of them)

Andy
"Michael Reinders" wrote in message
...
Open Resource Monitor (from Task Manager), expand the Disk category, and
click on the Read (B/min) and Write (B/Min) column headers to sort to see
exactly what physical files Vista is reading/writing to/from. That should
give you an excellent clue, if not the reason.

I LOVE this new feature in Vista.

--
Michael Reinders
Vista Ultimate SP1

"Andy" wrote in message
...
Hello

I bought myself a new Dell XPS 420 computer on the 19th april,

And i can hear the harddrive running all the time, even when the PC is
doing nothing.

i have turned off indexing, that search thing, and auto defrag and also
the superper frech thing

but still it is running at 100%.

if i check the monitoring tools it shows it at 100% all the time.

i left the machine on for 3 days doing nothing, and still hd is running
at 100%

i cant do that much with the thing, it can take 5min to copy a 10mb file
on the desktop to my documents folder.

I have done a totaly reinstall (and disbaled the above services), and
again still running at 100% all the time

the machine specs, are quad 2.6ghz, 3gb ram, 750gb hd.

i have also noticed that the avalible memory is 10mb when checking on
task manager.

(i have also installed windows xp pro, and this works all ok, so i am
guess it is something to do with vista)

anyone have any ideas to why, and how to stop it, as it is driving me
nuts

thanks

Andy

"Brink" wrote in message
...

Andy;697872 Wrote:
Hello

I bought myself a new Dell XPS 420 computer on the 19th april,

And i can hear the harddrive running all the time, even when the PC is
doing
nothing.

i have turned off indexing, that search thing, and auto defrag and also
the
superper frech thing

but still it is running at 100%.

if i check the monitoring tools it shows it at 100% all the time.

i left the machine on for 3 days doing nothing, and still hd is running
at
100%

i cant do that much with the thing, it can take 5min to copy a 10mb
file on
the desktop to my documents folder.

I have done a totaly reinstall (and disbaled the above services), and
again
still running at 100% all the time

the machine specs, are quad 2.6ghz, 3gb ram, 750gb hd.

i have also noticed that the avalible memory is 10mb when checking on
task
manager.

(i have also installed windows xp pro, and this works all ok, so i am
guess
it is something to do with vista)

anyone have any ideas to why, and how to stop it, as it is driving me
nuts

thanks

Andy

Hi Andy,

It could be the Index running in the background updating itself, or
Disk Defragmenter running on a schedule in the background to.

These tutorials will show you how to disable these as a test to see:

Index:
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/69...e-disable.html

Disk Defragmenter Schedule:
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/72...ragmenter.html


These options can help improve the performance of Vista as well.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/81...nce-vista.html


Hope this helps,
Shawn


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Hello

Indexing is already disabled, as is the search option, and also the auto
defrag.

frist things i did.

still running at 100%

fixed this, by taken the computer back to the shops and buying a HP machine.
"Andy" wrote in message
...
Hello

this is where is it saying it is running 100% of the time.

lots of system files, (100's of them)

Andy
"Michael Reinders" wrote in message
...
Open Resource Monitor (from Task Manager), expand the Disk category, and
click on the Read (B/min) and Write (B/Min) column headers to sort to see
exactly what physical files Vista is reading/writing to/from. That
should give you an excellent clue, if not the reason.

I LOVE this new feature in Vista.

--
Michael Reinders
Vista Ultimate SP1

"Andy" wrote in message
...
Hello

I bought myself a new Dell XPS 420 computer on the 19th april,

And i can hear the harddrive running all the time, even when the PC is
doing nothing.

i have turned off indexing, that search thing, and auto defrag and also
the superper frech thing

but still it is running at 100%.

if i check the monitoring tools it shows it at 100% all the time.

i left the machine on for 3 days doing nothing, and still hd is running
at 100%

i cant do that much with the thing, it can take 5min to copy a 10mb file
on the desktop to my documents folder.

I have done a totaly reinstall (and disbaled the above services), and
again still running at 100% all the time

the machine specs, are quad 2.6ghz, 3gb ram, 750gb hd.

i have also noticed that the avalible memory is 10mb when checking on
task manager.

(i have also installed windows xp pro, and this works all ok, so i am
guess it is something to do with vista)

anyone have any ideas to why, and how to stop it, as it is driving me
nuts

thanks

Andy

Andy;700930 Wrote:
fixed this, by taken the computer back to the shops and buying a HP
machine.
"Andy" not@xxxxxx wrote in message
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Hello

this is where is it saying it is running 100% of the time.

lots of system files, (100's of them)

Andy
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LOL Andy,

That's one way to fix the problem. Glad to hear you got it sorted.

Shawn


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Thanks mate,

Better still, i took the HP back, and got another dell 420, and this one is
working as it should. must of got a bad one

But that sums up my luck, i can pick the one in the million bad computer,
but i cant get even one lottery number!

Andy

"Brink" wrote in message
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Andy;700930 Wrote:
fixed this, by taken the computer back to the shops and buying a HP
machine.
"Andy" not@xxxxxx wrote in message
news:fva211$2dgd$1@xxxxxx
Hello

this is where is it saying it is running 100% of the time.

lots of system files, (100's of them)

Andy
"Michael Reinders" mdreinders@xxxxxx wrote in message
news:48178947$0$31740$4c368faf@xxxxxx



LOL Andy,

That's one way to fix the problem. Glad to hear you got it sorted.

Shawn


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Andy;702059 Wrote:
Thanks mate,

Better still, i took the HP back, and got another dell 420, and this
one is
working as it should. must of got a bad one

But that sums up my luck, i can pick the one in the million bad
computer,
but i cant get even one lottery number!

Andy

"Brink" wrote in message
...

Andy;700930 Wrote:

LOL Andy,

That's one way to fix the problem. Glad to hear you got it sorted.

Shawn


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LOL, I hear you.


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