Re: FN-FORUM: vista laptop - 45 mins disc activity when doing nothing

date posted 23rd April 2008 13:23

On 23/04/2008 14:39, John Deaville wrote:
> I usually use a mac, but i bought a 17 inch vista laptop to take
> presentations to meetings as well as watching tv and films on, I am using it
> now as my mac is dead
>
> the disc drive is making a constant pulsating grinding noise like a far
> away rave party, and has been doing so for almost an hour,despite only using
> internet explorer
>
> i have clicked the 'task manager' and it says that i only have 38 percent
> physical memory - so i am assuming the rest is used by vistas automatic
> nonsense
>
>
> is this unusual - and how can i take steps to stopping it as i am sure it is
> slowing everything down
>
>
> john
>
>
>

Any virus/etc scanners doing their business ?

Any updates getting installed ?

My wife hates it when she turns on the vista laptop to find it needs to
run updates and a scan, it takes ages sometimes. She keeps telling me to
put XP on it as she is fed up with popups every few mins saying
something has changed/happened/going to happen/might happen.

Task manager should show what's using cpu time which should help narrow
it down to what's causing the disc to run. Don't worry about memory
usage, that sounds fine to me.

Martin