What is Vista doing in the background?
Posted by admin on Nov 7th, 2006
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?
Nov 12th, 2006 at 02:27 pm
For future use, please search. Your hard drive has indexing enabled. You can turn it off by right clicking on the drive and deselecting Inxding. Make sure you are not doing anything during this process. It can take a few minutes. "Per"
Nov 14th, 2006 at 11:55 am
Check the setting for Vista's defrag applet. LeoFor every difficult and complicated question there is an answer that is simple, easily understood, and wrong. H.L. Mencken "Per"
Nov 19th, 2006 at 12:13 pm
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
Nov 22nd, 2006 at 10:13 pm
"Per" Run this. microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/ProcessesAndThreads/processmonitor.mspxYou'll likely find that it is Fileindexer, and I found that it stops eventually, and only runs occasionally after that. It's good to have instant access to data on your system.
Nov 26th, 2006 at 06:02 pm
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)
Nov 28th, 2006 at 03:27 pm
"Steve Thackery" skrev i meddelelsen Well it DOES bother me when my harddrive is going like crazy and slowing down my system when I am using it!