Hard drive writes excessively 4

[salbee2]

I have a DELL Inspiron laptop with an ATI 10 Gig drive.

Lately it seems to search all the time, slowing up everything, even the mouse movement and seems to stall the keyboard too.

Defrag and scandisk show no problems.

Can you recommend any shareware drive analysis tools or suggest any fix I can attempt.

Thanks in advance.


Salbee

 

[Jakespeare]

It is NOT a hard drive problem, but most likely junk software that you have loaded up (probably from the internet) that is causing programs that run in the background to run, and run, and run..............

Dump them. Stop them from loading at start up.

Go to:
> START
> PROGRAMS
> ACCESSORIES
> SYSTEM TOOLS
> SYSTEM INFORMATION

There you will find:
A tool bar:
> Choose TOOLS
& System Configuration Utility

> Go to Startup

Look at all the JUNK that is loading up. UNCHECK most of that garbage.......... ONE or TWO at a time, and REBOOT.

Dump the obvious crap like REAL PLAYER,,,,, AOL AIM, and the internet crap....... and maybe some of the DELL garbage, but NOT the Microsoft Windows System links,,,, you want your laptop to go into sleep mode.

This will make your computer run MUCH better after you dump all the junk that is loading up on Startup.

 

[cj75s]

Hi Salbee2

You could try defragging your drive. It sounds as though its storing programs in small bits all over the drive due to constant usage. Do Ctrl+Alt+del and shutdown everything but explorer and Systray if its there. Then go to Start Programs Accesories System Tools and click on Disk Defragmenter. Select the (C) drive and press start. It may take some time but its worth doing every week or so especially on a laptop !

You could also try Scandisk while your at it. If you want to you should load up a program called Evidence Eliminator which when run will eradicate all junk files you gather whilst surfing.

Good luck

Cj75s

 

[CitrixEngineer]

As an addendum to cj75s post, after defragging, it's worth fixing the size of the swapfile (ie make the min=max).

This prevents Windows from constantly "dynamically" resizing the thing as you're using your computer.

I hope this helps

 

[Kjonnnn]

Make sure you take that FastFind out of start up too.

 

[Kjonnnn]

Oh.. u didnt mention how much RAM u have... if u dont have much, its gonna be caching a lot.