HDD Activity/Thrashing

Flameethrower · Aug 14, 2012

Noticed that my laptops Light of HDD never stops blinking. I turned off indexing and it didnt matter at all.

Computer can sit idle and still flash like it does in video.

the numbers you see in the system tray 0.8 is core frequency and hardly jumps to the 2.3ghz.

Any ideas on how to stop this constant disk fetching.

Video of what im explaining

Automata · Aug 14, 2012

It could be a scheduled system process (indexing, defrag, etc) or a program. Try safe mode to see if the issue persists. If it doesn't, then use msconfig to narrow down what is causing the disk usage.

Flameethrower · Aug 14, 2012

I have windows Indexing off, Windows Def off, Back up off, restore off, and i do Msconfig every time i install a program so it dont load.

I went though add remove list and got rid of all the dell installed software i dont use. It almost seems like its AVG causing it with its constant scanning

Between start up and services tab in msconfig, only 15 boxes checked

Automata · Aug 14, 2012

And safe mode does?

Flameethrower · Aug 14, 2012

Havent gone into safemode. Still tweaking services and other things from resource monitor.

Nittenti · Aug 15, 2012

Install MSE instead of AVG ?

Wife had similar problem, her laptop got better/faster (her oppinion) after I removed AVG and installed MSE

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