Friend of mine installed MS Office XP. She tried defrag after doing so. It
kept restarting too. Even after defrag, she noticed the HD led that kept
blinking... meaning HD read even when she leaves the computer alone.

I tried messing around with her computer and i found this registry file that
was executed during startup... MOSEARCH.EXE. Disabled it and the constant HD
read was gone. Looked into her office XP setup and found this feature that
was installed... FAST SEARCH at the end of the list. I think this was the
culprit! No constant HD reads so far. Defrag runs continuously too.

Hope this helps.

Jess Brazil


----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex E Onslow" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 6:04 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Defrag question


> A couple of days ago I decided to defrag my hard drive because I hadn't
done
> it in a while. The problem is it kept restarting over and over again
because
> 'the drive contents had changed' even though I wasn't doing anything on
> computer while it was defragging. Is this normal? It did defrag the whole
> drive eventually but it took around 4 hours. My hard drive is 20gb, by the
> way. I don't know the speed of it.
>
> Alex Onslow
>
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