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Vista running stuff I don't know about

Rev. Jim posted on Friday, February 20, 2009 12:15 AM

Sometimes my hard drive light is flashing like crazy when I am not running
anything.  What is Vista doing behind my back?  Task Manager shows nothing
running.
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Vista running stuff I don't know about

Charlie Tame posted on Friday, February 20, 2009 12:26 AM

Indexing? Maybe an antivirus scan or anti spyware. You have show tasks
from all users selected?
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Rev.

Eleourple posted on Friday, February 20, 2009 12:34 AM

with vista you never know if its a virus gobbling up your files, or
vista eating up energy just for the heck of it.

DO you know that in these days where all technologies tend to be
greener, vista is creating far more global warming than any OS in the
history of computers?

For that alone reason it should be banned!

Bad DESIGN!

the idots who thought of how vista would be should be locked behind bars
in the same cage with criminal spanky de monkey... (its like hell being
with that idiot)
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capin' crunch, the fukkin idiot moron jackass

FBonWin7b1x64 posted on Friday, February 20, 2009 12:53 AM

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Are you really as fukkin dumb and stupid as your posting make you appear
to be?
Wait, no need to answer as that was a rhetorical question!...LOL!
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Vista running stuff I don't know about

Dave-UK posted on Friday, February 20, 2009 3:19 AM

Try looking in the Resource Monitor on the Performance tab of Task Manager.
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Vista running stuff I don't know about

Saucy posted on Friday, February 20, 2009 12:23 PM

Vista does indexing from time to time, this can cause extended HDD
(harddrive) activity. Also, Windows Defender and your virus scanner
occasionally scan through the HDD.

Saucy
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Vista running stuff I don't know about

Ian D posted on Friday, February 20, 2009 2:22 PM

Process Monitor will show everything the system is doing. It can
record thousands of items per second, but usually processes
will show as blocks of entries.  Also, you can halt the scrolling,
or do a capture, then scroll back to see what was going on.

Process Monitor:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx
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Vista running stuff I don't know about

Bruce Chambers posted on Friday, February 20, 2009 9:03 PM

I don't see how someone's pointing out that you're obviously either
woefully ignorant of Vista or deliberately lying makes him a "fan-boy."



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