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When my laptop computer has nothing to do, for example if it is sitting idle while I am reading a document, the hard drive starts making noises and the hard drive light blinks away. I'm talking about PDF files, so it's not the Autosave of Word.
The noise is very irritating, especially when there doesn't seem to be any reason for the hard drive to be doing anything at all. Is there a service or something like that I can disable to stop this?
It's an HP OmniBook XE3 notebook with Windows 98. If I open Task Manager, the noise ceases, when I close Task Manager, it starts again.
Any help appreciated!
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Actually, you can reduce the size of the swap file windows uses, or turn it off all together. Not sure how to do it in 98 i'm afraid. But i'd imagine it'd be under control panel. Maybe in system? I'd have thought defragmenting your disk might help. Often background processes might read from the disk. If files are all over the place, this might be a loud process.
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