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| Answer» <html><body><p>Something on my <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/win-732367" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about WIN">WIN</a> ME laptop is causing the hard drive to run nonstop when the machine is on but idle. A simple cleck on the desktop will still the drive for a minute or so, but it soon cranks up again. A related problem may be that the disk check after a faulty reboot is very slow, and scandisk takes forever as it continually <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/restarts-2990839" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about RESTARTS">RESTARTS</a> with the message that the drive's contents have changed.<br/><br/>Clearly something is running that should not be -- as is confirmed by the system resource meter which spikes to 100% use of memory when the drive is running. But what?<br/><br/>How do I identify this pest and quash it?Hi, if you think this is a nasty have you tried scanning with an AV, Adaware and Spybot s&d? If these come up clean try process explorer from <a href="http://www.sysinternals.com">www.sysinternals.com</a> this should give the process a name.<br/><br/>Online scan:<br/><a href="http://housecall.trendmicro.com/">http://housecall.trendmicro.com/</a><br/><br/>Adaware:<br/><a href="http://www.majorgeeks.com">www.majorgeeks.com</a><br/><br/>Spybot s&d:<br/><a href="https://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html">www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html</a><br/><br/>Derek.<br/>Well, I know from personal experience how BAD Windows ME really is. In my opinion, Windows ME never should have been released, becuase it has a LOT of errors. (That's why I upgraded to XP). As for your problem with memory, have you checked for viruses and spyware lately? Also, who is your computer manufacturer?<br/><br/>[glb]Flame[/glb]how can you condem the best o/s ever i have used winme for four years with hardly any problems of which were linked to nav (now dumped?(:_:)< anway first of all is>your screensaver for one>>alter it to run fourteen mins that should ample.. ......type msconfig in the run box and click the strat-up folder now scroll down the list and untick the programs that will be loaded at start-up.......and defrag you mean....and use the disk-clean up program....to gain more diskspace dump themes 31mbs......<a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/thanks-665909" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about THANKS">THANKS</a> Derek & Flame<br/><br/>Problem now solved but via an indirect route. It may <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/help-239643" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about HELP">HELP</a> others, so here's what I did.<br/><br/>First squeaky cleaned the laptop [Toshoba] with multiple AV, spy & anti-ad software. Problem still persisted. Then ran Process Explorer, which identified that some sort of indexing was going on complements of a file named mosearch.exe. This turns out to be the MS Office search service. <br/><br/>A Google search on the file name took me to CastleCops, where I found: "Mosearch.exe--Fast Search in Office XP - similar to the new revision of the Find Fast feature in Office 2000. Fast Search uses the Indexing Services in Office XP to create a catalog of Office files on your computer's hard disk. As with Find Fast - a waste of resources."<br/><br/>I couldn't agree more!<br/><br/>I have now disabled the function & the laptop no longer churns away all the time.<br/><br/>Yes, ME is flaky, but how can Microsoft build in something like this that not only wastes resources but also interferes so much with scandisk and defragging???<br/><br/>I'll start a new posting for my remaining WinME hassles.<br/>Hi, glad you've solved this problem <br/><br/>I use Windows ME as well, I have very few problems with it. (And no problems at all with Office 2000 and Fast Find; Fast Find was never installed )<br/><br/>Derek.Nice job Mandebvu! I'm glad to see what this forum has had SOME influence on you! We look forward to hearing from you again! <br/><br/>[glb]Flame[/glb]</p></body></html> | |