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Third party applications are those you've purchased from other
manufacturers, essentially, anything on your system that isn't Microsoft.
In any event, the system does do a lot of work in the background from time
to time when the system is idle. Restore points are created, it may be
adding information to the prefetch folder, the system also does some
optimization when the system is idle such as optimizing your setup for with
regard to quicker access to most used files and applications.
If you are concerned, turn your AV back on, be sure it is up to date and run
a scan on your system. Also, check for any malware, download, install and
run Ad Aware:
www.lavasoftusa.com.
It is not unusual for there to be disk activity when the system is idle.
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Michael Solomon MS-MVP
Windows Shell/User
Backup is a PC User's Best Friend
DTS-L.Org: http://www.dts-l.org/
"Pedro Sendas Pereira" <sendas@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:euwBBajsEHA.1272@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>I don't have Go Back (i don't know what that is
)
>
> About third party applications, i don think I have...
>
> "Michael Solomon (MS-MVP)" <user@#notme.com> escreveu na mensagem
> news:ua$XpOYsEHA.2688@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>> Do you have any third party applications monitoring your system, do you
>> have Go Back installed on your system; if no, what do you have installed
>> on your system?
>>
>> --
>> Michael Solomon MS-MVP
>> Windows Shell/User
>> Backup is a PC User's Best Friend
>> DTS-L.Org: http://www.dts-l.org/
>>
>> "Pedro Sendas Pereira" <sendas@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:%23796gKXsEHA.2196@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> Thank you for your answer, but that didn't work
>>>
>>> I went to Adminnistrative Tools + Services and turned off Indexing
>>> Services...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> "Michael Solomon (MS-MVP)" <user@#notme.com> escreveu na mensagem
>>> news:eA2D1jWsEHA.1016@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>>>> Try this, right click the C drive in Windows Explorer, select
>>>> Properties, remove the check from "Allow Indexing Service to index this
>>>> disk for fast file searching," click apply and ok. It's likely that
>>>> indexing, which usually goes on while the drive is idle, is the source
>>>> of the issue.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Michael Solomon MS-MVP
>>>> Windows Shell/User
>>>> Backup is a PC User's Best Friend
>>>> DTS-L.Org: http://www.dts-l.org/
>>>>
>>>> "Pedro Sendas Pereira" <sendas@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:ubo4SgWsEHA.2456@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>>>>> Hi
>>>>>
>>>>> I have a portable computar, an Acer Travelmate 291LMi, with Windows
>>>>> XP-SP2
>>>>>
>>>>> When I'm working hard drive isn't working almost all the time (except
>>>>> of course when I save something)
>>>>>
>>>>> But if I leave my computer idle for some time (5 min or something)
>>>>> when I get to the computer I see that the hardrive is working all the
>>>>> time (I can hear and the light is blinking).
>>>>>
>>>>> When I star using it again, noise and hard disk activity stops!
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't know what is doing this and how to stop.
>>>>>
>>>>> Can you help me?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you
>>>>>
>>>>> Pedro
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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