Why does Vista like my hard drive so much?

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Brett

I have Vista RTM installed on a new box. I see the hard drive light
continuously flicker. I can also hear the hard drive lightly crunching in
spirts. It never stops. When I watching this, nothing is going on with the
box.

Is this normal? Doesn't seem helpful to the hard drive's overall life
expectancy.

Thanks,
Brett
 
It is probably indexing the hard drive. After a few hours or days, this will
stop.
Defragmenting of the hard drive could also be taking place. This is now
automatic and too will reduce in frequency.
 
Depends on how long ago you installed. The initial indexing can take a
while. Some say a couple of hours, some say a couple of days. You will get
an extended period of drive activity following installation. Powering down
and then powering up again is a lot more harmful to a drive. The torque
generated during spinup is the most frequent failure point.
 
Gary Mount said:
It is probably indexing the hard drive. After a few hours or days, this
will stop.
Defragmenting of the hard drive could also be taking place. This is now
automatic and too will reduce in frequency.
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Can indexing and automatic defragmenting be turned off?
 
If you go into the indexing options, in the control panel, you can remove
the locations that are indexed. For the defrag, you can go into it's
settings and turn of "scheduled" defrags.
 
Background operations include:

1. Indexing
2. Defragmenting
3. System Restore points
4. AntiVirus checking (if you have any installed)
5. AntiSpyware checking (Windows Defender is always running)
6. Automatic updates
7. Disk Cleanup


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Richard Urban
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You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
this depends on what you want it to index...

indexing of hard drives are for people who dont use their computer... lol

On my computer too many files change too fast all the time... so indexing
would NEVER stop!

And as I have said before... this is something that will increase with
time.. since people will start getting broadband connections 10 times what
they have now...

indexing is stupid.. it will never be able to keep up with the demand of the
changing files...

So if you use a computer to look at and have no internet connection then
indexing is logical.. if not.... indexing is stupid.
 
On my computer too many files change too fast all the time... so indexing
would NEVER stop!

And as I have said before... this is something that will increase with
time.. since people will start getting broadband connections 10 times what
they have now...

indexing is stupid.. it will never be able to keep up with the demand of
the changing files...

So if you use a computer to look at and have no internet connection then
indexing is logical.. if not.... indexing is stupid.
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What has a broadband connection got to do with Indexing?

Do you actually know what Indexing does and how it works?
 
You tell me and lets see if you know.. lol



CJM said:
What has a broadband connection got to do with Indexing?

Do you actually know what Indexing does and how it works?
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He thinks indexing is going to index every web site on the internet.
There is no way his files are changing faster then they can be indexed.
He is just the local nut case.
 
Brett said:
I have Vista RTM installed on a new box. I see the hard drive light
continuously flicker. I can also hear the hard drive lightly crunching in
spirts. It never stops. When I watching this, nothing is going on with the
box.

Is this normal? Doesn't seem helpful to the hard drive's overall life
expectancy.

Thanks,
Brett
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Turn off Indexing. You'll be glad you did.

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no stupid.. I am talking about the near future and i the case of some
users, the present. Im not talking about web pages... geshhhh

With new broadband connections, there will be Video channels that will be
downloading shows, applications using torrent that will be downloading
e-books, music not by clicking on links but automatically according you your
preconfigured choices, or there will be programs that will "learn" what you
like more and not even ask you what to download..
it will download automatically and have the content ready and propose to you
things to see that it knows that interests you. TV is going to die.. people
will watch everything on the computer from the internet. Science fiction?
NOT!

This is totally possible and it will happen. Remember, vista will be around
for several years.. and things are accelerating.
Now if you are too dumb to understand that indexing cant keep up with all
this flow of information what can I say?

You might like to sit there with your vista machine indexing a few files you
have on your drive.. and stay away from this flow of information, but I sure
don't.. many of the above I am already implementing now...
 
What a NUT. Everything you just said is NOT thousands of files dumb a**.
Well within the ability to index all this information.
 
It can be indexed but as I said this is a never ending flow of information..
old files will be deleted and new ones will be replacing them constantly,
there is no need to index.

The claims that the hard drive will quiet down after indexing stops is
a lie.. indexing will keep on indexing because information will never stop
changing! Indexing is a dying technology... it cant keep up with the needs
of the near future..

I have seen this already happening...TODAY
another technology should be implimented. NOT indexing...

And the nightmare? You have to format the PCs boot drive.. and vista has to
reindex all your 500.000 ebooks, 2.000 movies, 800.000 images and 1.000.000
audio files....lol...

We are talking about drives the size of several terrabytes, the size is
growing even now alienware is selling a 3 terrabyte pc. .... unless a new
technology is found to have solid state hard drives
indexing will not be capable of doing the task.. why? Because the indexing
of all these files will take weeks.. and in the mean time you wont be able
to search ..fast,
so whats the point?

so indexing is not the solution... I have another idea in mind.. but I am
not sharing it here.


Gesh some people are very very slow to get the picture......
 
The larger the drive storage in the computer the more the need for indexing.

In the XP newsgroups there are literally hundreds of questions (just in the
past year) from people who downloaded a file and now can't find it. They
haven't a clue as to where it went.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
You just don't understand what broadband will do. It to deliver Audio and
Video STREAMS not the files.
I'm done talking to a idiot.
 
so what is needed? more intelligent organization.. not a friken service that
makes the HDD spin like a deamon is inside it...

I predict that the most common question from now on will be >>

HOW TO TURN OFF THE HORRIBLE INDEXING!!!

lol
 
Surely it's going to be how do you turn off UAC, Minicub, I would have
thought you being so smart and intelligent and having used Vista far longer
than anybody here, you'd be aware how popular/unpopular UAC is.

Colin T
 
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