What's Accessing my Harddrive?!

[Impruv]

well; i`m using msnmsgr so... can`t remove that haha. will `batterylife`prevent me from changing battery modes on the fly... like i change battery profiles from maximum performance to maximum battery life alot.

 

[Computer Head]

With vista, you can just use the battery icon at the bottom. That has the option to change your battery consumption mode right then and there.

 

[Impruv]

how do i `remove them`.. is it in the msconfig.

also; in the msconfig... under the services tab; there`s a whole bunch of windows services. Do I need all of them checked... since when i hide microsoft services... only like AVG and something else is left.

 

[Computer Head]

yeah go into msconfig and remove using the guide I gave earlier.

 

[Impruv]

uhh; sorry for being so 'noobish' .. but umm, i can't seem to find the names of the services you listed. Like it's probably not the same name under msconfig what to do?

 

[Computer Head]

Ok let's do it this way. Bring up msconfig, resize it as big as you can vertically, and make a full screenshot of that (PrintScreen). That way I can get on the same "page" as you are. From there I can tell you what to remove from starting automatically.

 

[Impruv]

it won't let me resize the msconfig window =S

sorry about all of this.

 

[Computer Head]

No worries, make a screenshot of every "view" of msconfig. That is, screenshot of A-F, then another starting with the last one of the previous one. Do you have the patience for that? I am a visual person.

 

[Impruv]

anything to make my laptop be faster! haha. I'll start doing it now =( =)

did u want the services tab.. or the start up tab... or both?

 

[Celegorm]

Ever stop to think it could be indexing? Mine does that every night at 1 am. It also creates a big system restore point around that time too. Using data from the performance meter, you can see what is reading and writing to the drive. That's how I found out mine was Indexing.