Constand hard drive access- vista

[Greymack]

Maybe i'm spotting things just because it's a new system but since installing vista i have noticed my hard drive seems to be constantly being acessed or at least the hard drive light is constantly flickering.
Not sure what could be causing this, i seem to recall similar issues with xp which were blamed in the system restore.

Anyway just wondering if anyone can shed any light on this.

[Midknyte]

Antivirus/Antispy (http://www.sysopt.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=161595)

Try running Process Explorer to see what is running. HD access is usually the system using the pagefile.

[Greymack]

I've run process explorer but i'm not 100% sure what i'm looking for, for example how can i tell whats accessing the HD?

[Midknyte]

you're looking for processes that are using up a lot of cpu and memory. like I said, hd thrashing is usually related to the pagefile.

[BipolarBill]

RAM again. The system is using the hard drive as virtual memory. That's sloooow. Get that other Gig of RAM and things will improve.