Re: Keeping hard drive shut down

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"DL" <address@invalid> wrote:

Unless they are very simple display apps, on installation they
will have placed files on your C drive and entries in the
registry. C drive is therefore being accessed, and in any case in
using win you are accessing the C drive

Most of the apps I've tried are simple screensavers which don't install
any DLLs or other components. Some use ini files, so they shouldn't
need to access the registry.

Oh well, I can probably live with it.

"Ray" <vortren-newsx@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have an old Dell laptop, running XP Pro, that I want to use
just to display photographs. To keep the noise down, I set the
hard drive to shut down after 1 minute.

Unfortunately, most of the many photo display programs I've tried
are unable to change pictures without the hard drive restarting.
The JPEG files reside on a compact flash card, as do the display
programs and the system page file, but for some reason the hard
drive still spins up when the picture changes.

The only program I've found that doesn't do this is the Windows
picture and fax viewer's slideshow mode, but I can't find any way
to set the time delay between changes.

The system has 128 meg of memory, with about half of it free, so
I wouldn't think a memory shortage would be the problem.

Suggestions, anyone?

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Ray
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