Screen saver question

[jmsabatini]

I've noticed that when the screen saver is activated (i.e. just the normal "Windows XP" logo screen saver), the hard drive will periodically start going, sometimes for a minute or two. I can't seem to figure out exactly what Windows is doing. Any ideas? Probably some background indexing or maintenance service. Thanks.

 

[bcastner]

See if this helps, XP can be quite busy at times during idle cycles: faq779-4518

 

[linney]

I would tend to agree with your assumption. If it was just running for a minute or two, once every day, that might be the creation of a System Restore point while you are idle.