For Windows Vista Users - Do You Notice Extreme Hardisk Activity?

i dont think it be a vista problem that i have vista on my laptop but only had it couple of weeks.. anyway i not 100% sure but when getting much harddrive activity as you are, and maybe a little slow down, also if space seems lower then should be.. I would say that maybe its time to do a defragmentation of your harddrive.. obviously after a time of downloading and installing, maybe deleting files sometimes.. anything you put on harddrive becomes fragmented, scattered different sectors of the hardrive, so it makes it that much harder for your computer to find the bit of data you are needing.. so all the time, while you using a particular application, the needle on hardrive is going rapidly back and forth looking for the bits of scattered data.. defragmenting will sort the data out and put it in order. i am sorry,, having problems in trying to explain this... I hope you understand what i mean.. basically do a defragmentation over night ok.. i think that will make a huge difference to speed, less harddrive activity and more space

I also have windows vista on my laptop and I have been having problems with my computer always restarting, windows vista has alot of kinks in it that microsoft is unable to fix right now, what i recommend is changing over to Windows Xp I have it on my desktop and I have not had any problems with it.

Hi Muelitz-I also have a vista and have noticed at times it is getting quite irritating as the internet connection keeps going and yes the hard disk activity seems to be quite full just wish I new how to empty it just am in the same position as you in a sense and don't know why-your friend littleowl

Hi Muelitz, My husband usually chech my computer disks so I hve not clue about it but i will ask my husband and see what he have to say, sorry. Tamara

I would try to clean your harddisk. I've noticed that cleaning up your data from your most recent restore point seems to free up a lot of space. Then you should probably perform a defrag. If the problem persists, I'd say...downgrade to Windows XP. It's a rather sad piece of advice.

I had to get another CPU so it wouldn't make that sound but it only made it go faster, it didn't change the noise.

It is a usual thing, windows checks the drives of your hard disk when you try to open the windows explorer or run a software. If your hard disk is packed with so much data, then it takes a while to perform the checking, for this reason you will see more hdd activities. However this activity is thigh in vista rather than xp. Try to clean up for some space on your hdd, run disk defragment and scan your drives.