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<rant>
So, I have this low-powered Atom-based machine running Windows 7 sitting right next to me that's essentially used as little more than a NAS.
After some seemingly random amount of time of sitting idle, something's causing a hard drive in that machine to start grinding away with no end in sight. As soon as I touch its mouse or keyboard, drive activity stops, so Task Manager / Resource Monitor hardly have anything useful for me to look at by the time I bring them up. I suspect it's MSE running periodically...but lately the drive grinding process seems to kick in more often than usual, and it's driving me bat-sh*t crazy. The fact that it stops within 2 seconds of me hitting the mouse/keyboard just makes things worse.
I'm probably gonna have to just let Resource Monitor or Performance Monitor sit all day, until those same background tasks kick in again to figure out exactly who the culprit is. I'm not really looking for suggestions (but they'd still be welcomed)...just need to vent, as right now I'm feeling like it's my skull that's being drilled.
</rant>
modified 9-Oct-13 17:34pm.
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It may be the indexing process on the disk. I had a similar issue with it, it indexes the disk when the computer/processor is idle.
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That would be my guess also, I had also thought maybe defrag but if he's not using it that much the defrag shouldn't be kicking in?
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Mike Hankey wrote: I had also thought maybe defrag but if he's not using it that much the defrag shouldn't be kicking in?
That'd be my thought as well; the machine is essentially a file server, and 99% of it is pretty much static...once a file's defragged, there's no reason it should be shuffled around the next time the defrag process runs. I suspect the indexing service.
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dandy72 wrote: I suspect the indexing service.
I agree. I turned indexing off on my machine and instead use Agent Ransack for searching, it's faster, easier to use and has more options also it's free.
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A true genius...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is (V).
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Wow pretty dang good for 240 years ago! I'm impressed!
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You want this: Play.com[^]
It does this: Drinks. (SFW)[^]
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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Dang and here's me using cubes in this evening's medicinal[s].
speramus in juniperus
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I need five of them to my evening glass...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is (V).
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thanksobama@gog.com - I knew he was behind it. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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This is an insidious conspiracy by the mother of GOG, MAGOG, to infect the minds of thousands of furloughed government workers, and turn them into meat-puppets to be used as life-energy fodder for the Alien Masters during the Great Swarm, as Rahu approaches Saturn in the Tula zodiac: [^].
bill
Google CEO, Erich Schmidt: "I keep asking for a product called Serendipity. This product would have access to everything ever written or recorded, know everything the user ever worked on and saved to his or her personal hard drive, and know a whole lot about the user's tastes, friends and predilections." 2004, USA Today interview
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... is now officially installed on my laptop.
I like it.
Keep Clam And Proofread
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√(-1) 23 ∑ π...
And it was delicious.
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Poor laptop
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is (V).
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The laptop already had Windows 8 on it.
Keep Clam And Proofread
--
√(-1) 23 ∑ π...
And it was delicious.
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Yes, but that was fixable! Just reformat and install Win7, or Linux...or DOS even. 
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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Remember when we used to anxiously await new releases of DOS, it was a simpler time!
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and the installation only took a few minutes 
Steve
_________________
I C(++) therefore I am
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Poor Brisingr... 
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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Hey, I like Windows 8! I like the live tiles (especially the weather one [if it is actually updated at that time], since the weather here has been kind of bizarre lately [thunderstorm one minute, bright sun the next]). I also like the extreme speed of execution that Win8 has.
EDIT: execution == running programs.
Keep Clam And Proofread
--
√(-1) 23 ∑ π...
And it was delicious.
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I suppose somebody has too. I just thought it was only Steve Ballmer, that's all...
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: I like Windows 8! I like the live tiles
Of course you do: now, listen up: in a few minutes you will hear the bell; when you hear the bell come to Steve's tent, and drink the Kook-Aid. Repeat: drink the Kook-Aid.
Google CEO, Erich Schmidt: "I keep asking for a product called Serendipity. This product would have access to everything ever written or recorded, know everything the user ever worked on and saved to his or her personal hard drive, and know a whole lot about the user's tastes, friends and predilections." 2004, USA Today interview
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