Re: FYI
- From: "Peter Foldes" <shanisean@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:28:02 -0500
Judging by your paragraph above about eliminating processes one at a time, my guess is that you either need more RAM or you need to configure your system to run more lean.
Or it is Indexing which is most likely
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"JimL" <inkleput@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:158ef$496a1879$c4db890$25217@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxAs regarding my posts about laptops flashing the hard drive light continually:
It may be useful to someone to note my experience. I have spent hours and hours identifying processes. I have switched off processes. I have deleted stuff. I even totally removed AVG so its huge stores of self-restarting and undeletable junk was gone. One thing is clear.
As I shut down process after process of known software like my firewall, my anti-spyware, my remote drive, my anti-virus, my clipboard reader, etc., etc., the hard drive access lessened with each one I shut down until there was almost none going on.
This indicates that there is no hidden malware driving the continual accessing.
This indicates that my starting question about about whether it was normal for laptops to do this (as opposed to piling up a bunch of details about what machine I was using, etc.) was spot on, appropriate and proper. (I wanted a simple answer and asked a simple question.) And it indicates something about the people who jumped down my throat for asking it.
Who jumped down your throat? Are you sure that's what happened? The only thread I could see was the one called "Simple question for laptop users." I saw only two replies, and both were helpful.
Unfortunately, there are some immature rascals posting here who admittedly aren't helpful and can even be abrasive. It is best to ignore them. :-)
In my experience with laptops, the answer is no, it is not normal for a laptop's hard drive access light to flash 30 to 40 times a minute. Perhaps an over-reliance on the pagefile is causing this to happen with your laptop. But Malke is correct; if you want us to assist you in finding and eliminating the cause, it is important for you to provide the necessary details, including the amount of RAM you have and the Commit Charge figures, among other things.
Judging by your paragraph above about eliminating processes one at a time, my guess is that you either need more RAM or you need to configure your system to run more lean.
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