up vote 1 down vote favorite
1
share [g+] share [fb]

My Windows XP "does" something non stop on my hard drive - about every minute, a short blink (~0.2 sec.) of the disk activity diode, causing the power save options never to work.

This really sucks, I have disabled most of the services (like indexing, logging, page file, system restore stuff, but it still "performs" something very important)

link|improve this question
2  
Did you check your processes with Process Explorer? Maybe it can help you to figure out what's going on inside. technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx – Mehper C. Palavuzlar Oct 30 '09 at 10:18
Yes, use Process Explorer to track disk activity. It wouldn't surprise me if this was "normal". – harrymc Oct 30 '09 at 10:57
feedback

1 Answer

up vote 3 down vote

It could be the search indexer running, that would be my first guess. Here is a lifehacker post on how to disabled the indexer. Searching will still work even with this disabled, it just may take a bit longer.
Disable XP Search Indexer

link|improve this answer
feedback

Your Answer

 
or
required, but never shown
discard