Hard Drive Continually Active

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My hard drive is continually active even when I'm not doing anything on the
computer. It's like it's contantly indexing. Is there any setting I can click
to turn this off in XP SP2. Even as I'm writing this message, the hard drive
is constantly churping like an annoying budgie. Thanks if you can help.
 
It may be because:

-You don't have enough RAM Memory and the OS needs to constantly paginate.
-You may have a spyware/malicious software installed that do something to
your files (sending them via internet to someone else?)
-Do you use any indexing software such as Google Desktop Search?
-Maybe it's your anti-virus software... Try turning it off for some time to
see if it's the case.

That's about all the things I can think of for now...
 
Also, in the Windows Task Manager, you can add the I/O Reads and I/O Writes
columns to see what software use your HDD the most...

Go to the View->Select Columns... option to do that.
 
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