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fatbloke
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Having to use my partners elderly laptop (P2 thinkpad) recently so I can flash my treo 650 smartphone for an upgrade of the firmware and OS.
I don't usually switch either my main PC (linux based) or the laptop off, but I notice that when the laptop is in "sleep"/standby mode, it often shows what I'd think of as excessive disc activity - via the hard drive light.
As far as I can tell, the firewall and AV are up to date (Scans showing that theres nothing malicious going on - AFAIK), but I get a little paranoid as the laptop couldn't really run anything else other than the W98SE thats installed or maybe a leaner linux distro.
So how might I find out what the disc activity actually is ? i.e. what it's doing?
Oh and no, the network connections show that there doesn't seem to be anything going through it to the internet.
TVM in advance.
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putasolutions
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It may well be that your disk is indexing, and/or compressing old data.
You haven't by any chance got M$ office on this laptop haveyou?
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fatbloke
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Quote:
It may well be that your disk is indexing, and/or compressing old data.
You haven't by any chance got M$ office on this laptop have you?
Yup. The full business version of Office 2k
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putasolutions
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In that case try turning off the Find fast indexing
Click Start |(Settings) | Control Panel.
Double-click Find Fast.
In the Index for documents in and below list, click the first item.
On the Index menu, click Delete Index.
In the Delete Index box, click OK. When you are prompted to delete the index, click OK.
Repeat the latter two steps until no more indexes are listed.
Click the Index menu. If the Run When I Log On check box is selected, click it to clear the check box.
On the i]Index menu, click Close and Stop. If you are prompted to stop Find Fast, click OK.
See if that reduces your HDD activity
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