weird disk activity

[lin73]

Hi

On my Windows Vista Ultimate pc I frequently have very heavy disk activity without me doing anything at all. Does anyone have any suggestions on what this might depend on, and how I can get rid of it?

Regards

 

[lhuegele]

Windows Vista needs LOTS of RAM. If you don't have at least 2 gigs of ram you're going to see increased hard drive activity because it uses the hard drive as fake RAM.

Good luck

 

[HughLerwill]

Could be scheduled activity such as disk defrag which by default goes off once a week around here. Watch task manager.

 

[lin73]

Hi

I have 3Gb of RAM, so that should not be a problem, thanks for the tip about task scheduler.

Regards

 

[linney]

Is it Indexing, or Synchronizing, or Windows Updates, etc?

Have you checked for Malware?

The Task Manager (Process for all users checked) should show you something.

 

[harebrain]

Doesn't Vista, by default, reorganize hard drives during system idle time? *That* would explain it.

 

[lin73]

Hi

I uninstalled oo defrag, and now the disk activity has reduced a lot. I think it was scheduled to defrag my disk at idle.

 

[HughLerwill]

>I think...

To be sure Right Click Disk drive in 'Computer' - select Properties - select Tools tab - click Defragment now button. The resulting dialog details how the task is scheduled and lets you modify it.