I believe I found the culprit... It turns out that Norton Internet Security has a defragmentation program that runs on the boot volume. For those interested, the exact setting is: Idle Time Optimizer.
I disabled this feature.
Thanks
Thank you for posting your results Hotfeet. turned out to be the simplist of things but something easily overlooked
Posting your result really helps others if they pick up this thread in a search
Best wishes for Xmas & New year
Hello all,
Sorry all, but I stuft up and posted 2 posts in one (both simila but differnt) so I marked the previous post as Solved and re-posted the correct part of the thread below AS FOLLOWS:
Appologies to "Boozad" and "Mark Phelps"
Thread Title: Need help with graphics driver stopping...
The situation I have is that I reformatted and my printer shows up in My Computer with a red X, although it works fine (takes quite a while to make the WiFi connection though). I did a search here and one person suggested right clicking on My Computer and clicking on Disconnect Network Drive to...
Hope someone might be able to help.
Defrag opens and runs on C: fine no issues. On D: it starts, analyses ( way too quick IMHO ) then stops and marks the drive as 26% fragmented. Tried most things I can think of.
I did a search and can’t seem to find anything like this. I do not want to...
I have a couple of partitions that I don't want touched by defragging, such as those that contain my backup images, and this might increase with some changes that I have in mind, to where I would want to exclude an entire drive. It is simple to exclude a file or folder, but I haven't found a way...