Whenever I leave my compy idle for a lil while, it like acts like its working on something for a few seconds, the red light solid and the drive working, but nothing is going on. And then it goes away when I let it do that, or hit hte spacebar. WTF is this?
Sounds like page swapping. I wouldn't worry about it too much. Just make sure you have plenty of memory and do a virus scan every now and then. It also wouldn't hurt to make sure all your drivers are updated.
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Anonymous2006-01-31 3:41
you could open the task manager, view tasks and sort by cpu usage, disable screensaver, and let it idle so the offending process shows up when it starts using cpu. then google it to see what it is.
>>6
No, it doesn't attack the root of the problem. Format and disk defragmenter are hardly solutions to most problems.
>>3
Probably got a load of malware through Internet Explorer.
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Anonymous2006-01-31 9:04
>>8
I think what he means is that the OPs computer is defragmenting. As far as I know, when idle windows sometimes defragments hard drives if they are really fragmented.
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Anonymous2006-01-31 9:39
It happens to me too, and I don't have malware or a trojan or anything. >>6,9 are probably correct.
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Anonymous2006-01-31 13:55
It could be System Restore making a system checkpoint. It's set up to do that during idle time so it (theoretically) won't interrupt your work.
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102006-01-31 15:56
>>11
Sounds plausible, except I've disabled System Restore.