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Never-ending background(?) harddrive activity - Is this normal?
Greetings.
Background: I'm quite new to Windows 7 and even newer (as of a few minutes ago) to sevenforums. I'm not sure if this is the correct place for this question... and it very well may be a laughably stupid question, but here goes . . .
I've just finished a clean install of Win7Pro.x64 on my new Thinkpad W520. I've completed all the Windows Updates including SP1 and its follow-on updates. Beyond this, I've installed only three apps/utilities: AVG Anti-Virus, Adobe Flash Player and Revo Uninstaller.
That's the background... here's the question:
My harddrive light flickers on at an average of about one flicker every 1.4 seconds. I emphasize average because, these "flickers" are definitely not in any regular pattern that I can discern.
My last OS was XP and I'm pretty sure that when my system was idle, there was virtually no HDD activity. So, having upgraded to Win7, and seeing this ongoing HDD activity (and by "ongoing" I mean it's been doing this all day), I'm just wondering: is this normal? Or do I need to be investigating some kind of a problem? If the latter, I'd appreciate any recommendations for how to investigate the cause of this HDD activity.
Thanks,
--Thri
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PS - Okay... this is a little embarassing, but I may have found my own answer. I discovered something called the Resource Monitor, and it's certainly giving me a good picture of what "Images" and files are being read and written to. I guess there's really a lot of background activity that happens with Windows 7. So, I'm tentatively assuming that all is well; that is, normal. Would still appreciate any reassurance by way of a brief reply. Thanks again. --Thri
Last edited by thricipio; 20 Apr 2012 at 21:03. Reason: May have found my own answer