Heavy disk access

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Ajith Jayawardene

Hi,
I got a HP Pavilion with 512MB RAM, 80GB HD & 1.6GHz Pen 4
Suddenly It is running slow, and Very heavy disk accessing.
Did a disk defrag, but still the same. I tried to update
windows XP, it took about 2 days to install the critical
updates after downloading the files. I can see heavy disk
access from the disk light. The light is continues on. I
have installed McAfee virus scan and Firewall too.

Any solutions?

Thanks in advance.

Ajith
 
How long before the critical updates were installed, a trojan worm could have snuck in (not a virus) before you loaded the security patches.
 
Your Disk Indexing Service must be on, try putting it off from the " Windows
Services". Disk indexing services also worls continously on the HDD.
Ashwini
 
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