Strange Disk Activity

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  1. OEM
    Posts : 617
    OS3.5
       #1

    Strange Disk Activity


    Hello,

    Was wondering if some one knows what all this disk activity is usually at the end of the day when the system is idle. It's not disk defrag, defender, or any other type of scan. It sounds like when a disk defrag is running only quieter. It's constant and can run for over an hour, yet usually its not enough activity to light the hd activity light. According to the performance monitor it's almost always writing with next to no reading, which sounds strange because if its not reading from anywhere, whats it writing? Also note this is when the pc is not connected to the network. I run ccleaner a few times a day and always at the end of the day, yet many entries in the performance monitor show files relating to internet use.
    Any idea's whats going on here?

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    Last edited by OEM; 01 Jan 2011 at 18:44.
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  2. Posts : 2,651
    W7 RTM Ultimate x64
       #2

    Hmm, mine does that every now and then, and eventually stops and sits in idle.. I'm wasn't sure what it was at first, but i found out its my diskeeper doing its automatic defragmentation..

    If you have this program that may be the case..

    Enzo.
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  3. Posts : 5,840
    Vista Ult64, Win7600
       #3

    It might be just doing Indexing.
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  4. Posts : 2,651
    W7 RTM Ultimate x64
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    True that, never thought of that, good thinking Jfar, but then again, ive disabled my indexing..

    Enzo.
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  5. OEM
    Posts : 617
    OS3.5
    Thread Starter
       #5

    I thought about indexing too, but what could it be indexing relating to internet cache. All of that should be deleted. When I look at per. mon. things like history, temp internet, and cookies are always at the top. Thats with having it display items with the most activity at the top.

    Just took a look at the index ui, and it has indexed a lot more in the last couple of days. When I last checked it was around 450 items, now its at over 6,200.

    I'll turn it off and see what happens.
    Thanks for the help.
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  6. Posts : 2,651
    W7 RTM Ultimate x64
       #6

    That should free up some memory while its at it, mind if i ask but, which way do you plan on turning off the indexer?

    Enzo.
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  7. OEM
    Posts : 617
    OS3.5
    Thread Starter
       #7

    ENZO said:
    That should free up some memory while its at it, mind if i ask but, which way do you plan on turning off the indexer?

    Enzo.
    Looking for that as we speak in services.
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  8. Posts : 4,925
    Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
       #8

    Dont forget its called Windows Search in Windows 7.
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  9. Posts : 2,651
    W7 RTM Ultimate x64
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    Bum-Bow, you should be doing it the proper way..

    Control panel, programs, programs and features, and turn windows features on or off, and turn it off from there, gets rid of it completely.

    Enzo.
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  10. OEM
    Posts : 617
    OS3.5
    Thread Starter
       #10

    swarfega said:
    Dont forget its called Windows Search in Windows 7.
    Thats all I see in services as well. It desciption is:
    Provides content indexing, property caching, and search results for files, e-mail, and other content.
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