Disk activity in XP

[Nd4Spd]

My roommates computer is running XP home. All the time it is on, the harddrive is constantly spinning. You can hear it, like it's reading information or something. I looked to see if the indexing service is on, but it's turned off.

Any ideas why it is constantly running?

Thanks.
Indy

[Bads]

Just open the task manager and see which program or service is running

[richardc2000]

to what bads said you can check to see if Outlook Express is compacting messages in the background-
Tools/Options/Maintenance

[Stringent]

Might also be because you have the minimum amount of RAM. Also an indexing service turned on, or Microsoft scanning your had drive

[~*McoreD*~]

Check out this thread:
http://www.betaone.net/forums/index....light+flashing

[mikeh420]

I turned off "Compact Messages..." in Outlook Express, and also turned off Indexing for the searches, and still there is disk activity every 4 or 5 secs. when nothing is going on. The only annoying thing about it is the disk drive never 'sleeps'. Oh well, just minor annoyance, just like the damned Windows Explorer losing it's size and view settings randomly!

"Why put out a good product when people will buy half-a$$ed crap?"

- Bill Gates

[richardc2000]

yep - check out ~*McoreD*~ 's post above.

[Nd4Spd]

I will try the outlook fix, but he doesn't use it. As far as I know, it's never been opened.

I will also put the hdd monitor on and see what's going on. Thanks for all the replies, this gives me something to work on for a while.

Indy