Hard drive light constantly flashing ,reading hard drive d..

Lots of stuff run in the background with Vista. It is not likely you will
ever get to a point that the disk light does not flash occasionally. It
indexes the drives, defrags the drives, relocates most used stuff to the
fastest part of the drive, it builds lists of most used apps, it checks for
updates, it phones home for validation, ..... The list is much longer. The
point is that it is NOT XP, and don't expect to make it act like XP.
Flashing drive lights are what Vista does.

Good luck.


"Logoschild" <Logoschild.3g0cjc.RemoveThis@DoNotSpam.com> wrote in message
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> RB, you seem to have given the best advice here, sir. I am having the
> same issue as described above--the drive light blinks about every second
> when nothing is apparently going on and no apps are visibly running
> (other than whatever background apps are running). This is occurring on
> a brand-new, virus-free Toshiba laptop with a P7350 Duo 2 processor with
> 4 GB of DDR3 RAM and Vista 64. Perfmon shows the activity and also
> shows a constant processor util of about 4%-7%. The used resources
> (memory) stat is about 30% (so, apparently, Vista is a major resource
> hog, I guess). The only thing that appears to be accessing the drive is
> the operating system, but I may be missing something because it's hard
> to look at all that in a glance and I haven't searched out every line to
> see exactly what it is. What say you for my situation?
>
> P.S. I have also noticed that the mouse (touchpad) pointer appears to
> skip a beat every now and then and/or appear to freeze momentarily. I
> just plugged in an external mouse to see if it does the same with the
> mouse (to determine if the problem is with the touchpad or my
> comfortability with it rather than a system performance problem).
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Logos Child
>
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