Re: grinding on HDD


"jb" <jbrandonbbremove@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Actually, it might be grinding less now. What I did is moved every file
over
about 100MB (I have lots of video files) to an external disk. It
doesn't
seem to beat on the disk *as much, but could that really have been it?


do you have media sniffers or indexing enabled in an office suite on in
disk
management?
virtual memory settings?
scratch disk setup from a graphics program?
anti virus running a test behind the scene?

Where do I find the indexing for Office? I removed Google Desktop. I don't
have a media sniffer. VM is at a system managed size with 160GB free.
Graphics programs are not running -- this is mainly OUtlook, FireFox,
Outlook Express, Word, and games. No virus checker running.

When you say "in disk management" what does that mean?


in admin tools in control panel...the easier way is to right click each
drive and goto properties. At the bottom of the first window..uncheck '
allow indexing on this drive ' check box...it can take awhile to finish.




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