Can't get to sleep

[perplex]

Can someone explain to me why the fuck my laptop's HDD is constantly scratching away while my laptop is idle and I'm in bed? I do mean literally seeking/writing/whatever the fuck *constantly*.

 

[Parmenides]

You have other friends from far away using your computer?

 

[RocketFast321]

turn off the index thing and see what happens

 

[TeeJayHoward]

Oh, that's easy to fix. Just get the biggest hammer you have around the house, and...

(Or, alternately, you could look at perfmon and find out what's writing to disk. Hell if I know how to do it, though.)

 

[perplex]

The indexing thing is off. I thought HDDs spin down when computer is idle?

 

[Farva]

i've noticed this with my laptop as well. how do u turn off the indexing exactly?