Harddrive working

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You can R.click on task bar,select task mgr for whats running,go
to run,type:services.msc This shows what run in auto or manual
start mode,this can be edited by double clicking a service.Go to run,
type:Msconfig in start-up,list services that run in auto mode

"Di Farker" wrote:

> The only thing I have running is my firewall (and I had that on W98) but my
> HD seems to do a lot of 'work' for no apparent reason. Is it one of the
> 'services' that MS automatically put on that's causing it?
>
> Thanks
>
>
>

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On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 00:50:00 GMT, "Di Farker" <diannefarker@ntlworld.com>
wrote:
>The only thing I have running is my firewall (and I had that on W98) but my
>HD seems to do a lot of 'work' for no apparent reason. Is it one of the
>'services' that MS automatically put on that's causing it?
>Thanks

In addition to what others mentioned - you mention win 98. This tells me, if
you are using the same computer, that your computer might be old, low RAM,
slow, etc. What MHz speed are you talking? P3, or P4 or equivalent? How
much RAM? 256 MBs RAM is minimal with XP (I've heard systems running on 128
MBs RAM, but I can't say how well they'd do). If you're running a P3 and only
like 500 MHz & low RAM, this might be your problem. Maybe it is using your
hard drive for virtual memory because it doesn't have enough real RAM.

Of course I'm no expert, but I thought I'd throw that possibility in.

....D.

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"...D." <d@no_usenet_email..org> wrote in message
news:4542f0t7j30jc1lkqhnem86it4nm32220l@4ax.com...
> On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 00:50:00 GMT, "Di Farker" <diannefarker@ntlworld.com>
> wrote:
> >The only thing I have running is my firewall (and I had that on W98) but
my
> >HD seems to do a lot of 'work' for no apparent reason. Is it one of the
> >'services' that MS automatically put on that's causing it?
> >Thanks
>
> In addition to what others mentioned - you mention win 98. This tells me,
if
> you are using the same computer, that your computer might be old, low RAM,
> slow, etc. What MHz speed are you talking?

It's an AMD 2600

> P3, or P4 or equivalent? How
> much RAM?

512 of 3200, but running at 2700 because my MB can't handle higher

> 256 MBs RAM is minimal with XP (I've heard systems running on 128
> MBs RAM, but I can't say how well they'd do). If you're running a P3 and
only
> like 500 MHz & low RAM, this might be your problem. Maybe it is using
your
> hard drive for virtual memory because it doesn't have enough real RAM.

Not so fast! I have 127GB of space left on my shiny new 7200 drive

Thanks for help