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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