Hard drive frequent access?

[rfkennard]

Hello:

Does Windows XP have a program similar to "Fast Find" used in older Windows OS's? I have looked everywhere and can't understand the frequent hard drive access (about once per second) that occurs, even when I am not doing anything. Is this freqent access really necessary and if not, how can I shut if off?

Thanks!

[Philip1952]

If you have not shut down all the background service. Then you need to. Indexing service on XP is a big resource hog. That is probably doing the random access's you hear.


Here is a good site with directions to kill the unwanted background service.

http://blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm


You have two of each threads showing. How about deleting one of each.

[rfkennard]

Thanks for the help, Philip 1952!

I went to the Black Viper's Website, and it looks like a great source of info on Windows XP and other OS's. I'll have to spend some time studying it.

Also, I found out that by going to my User CP, I can access my subscriptions and delete the duplicate messages. I'm still not sure why that happen (probably some AOL glitch!).

Regards,

RFKennard

[Philip1952]

If that was the only one AOL had there would be a lot of happy people in the world of internet access.

Doubles happen. I think just about every old timer here has had it happen at one time or another.