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04-22-2008, 05:03 AM
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Hi Guys I am a newbei so be gentle. I have noticed druring idle that my hardrive continues to work. I can hear it ticking over like a bomb and the activity led is flashing, its really quite anoying when I am trying to concentrate on other things. I have turned off indexing and a few other services without success and therefore am wondering if anybody had any ideas how to solve this problem. I have a virus cryp_tap and I am trying to solve this problem again without success and I wondering if this has anything to do with the constant activity. Thanking you in advance regards Claxers.       |
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04-22-2008, 08:48 AM
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| That is very odd to say the least.  I have many hard drives, and Vista actually powers them DOWN incredibly well when they aren't in use (very annoying when I have to wait a whole second for the drves to spin back up thogh  )I can't tell you what your problem is, but I knwo what can!  In the start menu search box, search for Performance and Reliability monitor. Run it. You will be able to see a resource overview and underneath it specific items including Disk. Open up the disk section and it will state the PID of what is using your hard drive constantly. Use the PID to trace the process to it's original program in task manager. Once you have the program name, if you don't know what it does you can google it, or reply here and I can help you out. If any of this needs more clarification let me know (at work so have had to rush this post  )Oh, and  crabby |
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04-22-2008, 09:43 AM
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| disable superfetch service. the hdd activity should then stop  and it will actually make your pc faster! :O |
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04-22-2008, 11:10 AM
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Hi guys thanks for ur quick response. I disabled superfetch but hardrive continued to grind away; therefore I checked out the Performance and reliability Monitor. I sat and waited for the harddrive to settle but it continued and the program that seemed to be causing this is TSCF com svr.exe., then it would suddely burst into life for no apparent reason and again it seemed that the overall culprits were RacAgent.exe and Winlogon. exe. I am going to google these to see what they do but anymore thoughts on this matter would be greatly appreciated as its becoming a bit of an obsession now. Cheers Claxers. |
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04-22-2008, 11:44 AM
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| svr.exe is malicious! Get rid of it. RACagent has known issues with hogging resources, but should be fine with an up to date system. To be honest, it is part of the performance and reliability monitor so it might be it was spiking because you had it open. Get rid of svr first and see if it continues, if it does I'll have a think! crabby |
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04-22-2008, 03:39 PM
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| also be sure to so a full system scan. anti-virus, spayware etc |
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04-22-2008, 04:13 PM
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| I would not disable superfetch. Machines faster with superfetch, IMO.
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04-22-2008, 04:33 PM
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04-23-2008, 05:33 AM
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| you would think znod.. but its not.. i have it disabled after reading some tips in a PCFotmat mag and my pc is faster booting up and shuting down |
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04-23-2008, 11:33 AM
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| Hi Guys, thanks again for all your responses. I have tried some of the ideas but then i ran out of time(back at work). I will have another serious look over the weekend and let you know how i got on. Cheers Claxers |
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