What is Vista doing in the background?

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It seems sometimes my harddrives are operating like crazy without any active
program using it. This is really annoying. Does Vista run any optimizing or
something at random or what?
 
For future use, please search. Your hard drive has indexing enabled.
You can turn it off by right clicking on the drive and de-selecting Inxding.
Make sure you are not doing anything during this process. It can take a few
minutes.
 
Check the setting for Vista's defrag applet.

--
Leo

For every difficult and complicated question there is an answer
that is simple, easily understood, and wrong.
H.L. Mencken
 
Relax - it's doing good work. At various times it indexes all the content
on the hard drive (which enables the excellent new search facility); it
preloads the RAM with files you use frequently, to speed up program loading;
it defrags the disk, to keep it running smoothly; and it shuffles files
around to speed up the boot times. That's all I can think of for now -
maybe there's other things it does, too.

Don't let it bother you.

Thack
 
It is probing your bank accounts, tax returns and health records for the
Bush Administration trying to decide if your a terrorist. If you are Vista
will tell you you have an illegal copy of Vista and then call the cops.

=(8)
 
Steve Thackery said:
Relax - it's doing good work. At various times it indexes all the content
on the hard drive (which enables the excellent new search facility); it
preloads the RAM with files you use frequently, to speed up program
loading; it defrags the disk, to keep it running smoothly; and it shuffles
files around to speed up the boot times. That's all I can think of for
now - maybe there's other things it does, too.

Don't let it bother you.
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Well it DOES bother me when my harddrive is going like crazy and slowing
down my system when I am using it!
 
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