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Watch our Welcome Guide to learn how to use this site. VideoChris Thread Starter. Joined Nov 6, Messages 2. It's as though the drive is reading and writing a lot of data, but the hard drive light shows almost no activity.
It has affected my PC's performance. Writing a MB file used to take a few seconds, but now takes almost half a minute. I am certain that it is the hard drive. It is currently sitting on the table, running.
I can hold it and feel the head seek vibrations. If I boot with a restore CD, and the restore program is idle and waiting for user input, it still makes the noise. Spinning all the time is just going to accelerate this From some of the things I have been reading.
We might see Flash Drives replacing hard drives in the next few years. You can now easily boot different Linux distros off flash drives very easily now.
And Ubuntu and Fedora9 work well from a flash drive. I have been using Ubuntu off a flash drive for a while now.
It takes a little work for Ubuntu to work on a FD. But Fedora9 is easy to do. JSKY I appreciate your repsonse. I have noticed that my habitual programs such as World of Warcraft or Photoshop load much faster than they did when they were installed. It makes sense. And by the way, thus far I've loved Vista. I think the people with problems with it simply don't have the power to run it efficiently. Svchost is an application which hosts NT Services , portions of applications big installed programs which cannot run all by themselves but often need to be launched independently of the application which installed them.
So, as windows loads, each time there is a call to launch services which do not have their parent application running , an instance of svchost is launched. Each instance can host several different services if you use starter, on the process tab, select one and it will list the components it is running , and there are normally a minimum of five one for each registry hive Root, Current User, Users, Local Machine, Current Config. There are of course several things which can cause your hard drive to continuously seek and read and write.
But there are a great many things which can do this. File indexing and search functions can do this; especially if you have conflicting ones. There are cases for example where installing google desktop conflicts with windows file indexing or fast find causing constant drive access. I think the most common cause has to be people who install third party defrag utilities. You see, each defrag utility uses a different algorithm.
Some sort by name, others by frequency of use or date created or type of file Operating system, program, data or combinations thereof. Each defrag utility may want files placed in different orders. Not a big issue in the old days when defrag had to be run in safe mode; but today most defrag utilities can be run in windows normal mode with other applications running and actually constantly run in the background "optimizing " the drive when they sense that it is idle.
Hence you stop using it for ten seconds an eternity to a CPU and it starts moving files around. Ideally a new defrag utility would disable the windows built in defrag now based on executive software diskkeeper when it is installed so that it no longer tries to do this; but often they fail or do not even try. THen you have battling defrag utilities,, each moving things and then the other putting them back.
There are workarounds, using tweakui to disable the optimize in background function for example. The next thing to consider is that you may not have enough RAM.
Yet another common cause goes back to svchost and all those services. Often if you use MSCONFIG to disable startup applications which have services which are launched by svchost these services still run and keep checking ram and swap file to see if their application is there.
Whenever possible you should use a programs own built in options , preferences , settings to disable startup and if instructed to do so separately disable the services it launches. You can post now and register later.
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