Just found this in Woody's Office Watch, a great newsletter for those of you
that don't know. www.woodyswatch.com
Brad Loomis
Los Angeles, CA
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6. STRANGE HARD DISK ACTIVITY
WOWser SC wrote: "Two major things happened to my Windows
98 computer recently - I installed a new, large (40GB) hard
drive and also installed Office XP. I soon noticed that a
minute or so after not using the computer (i.e. not
touching the mouse or keyboard) there was a lot of activity
on my hard drive, even if no programs were running. (My
screensaver doesn't kick in until 10 minutes have passed.)
I tried shutting down most programs in my system tray, but
still the activity persisted. Quite naturally, perhaps, I
assumed it was something to do with my new hard drive,
though I couldn't imagine what. However, after mentioning
to 2 colleagues, I found that both had the same problem,
and guess what - they had both just installed Office XP!
Has anyone else noticed this, and what could it be?"
I had SC go into Word and open up the Search pane (the
easiest way is by clicking the down arrow in the upper
right corner of the task pane and choosing Search). I told
her that it sounded to me like Fast Search had been turned
on. Fast Search, also known as the Indexing Service, is an
Office XP feature that hooks into the operating system to
create indexes of all your files. The indexes make it
easier and faster for Office to search for text inside of
files. (Fast Search is a distant cousin of Find Fast, an
abomination in earlier versions of Office that should be
impaled with a wooden stake. But I digress.)
In fact, Fast Search was turned on. I had her turn it off.
SC's response: "Marvelous, that does seem to have solved
the problem!! Not exactly an obvious option? I would
rarely, if ever, need to use the Search pane. At least Find
Fast used to show up in Task Manager. Another one of
Microsoft's "helpful" features - I've been tearing my hair
out over this! Thanks for all your help, I can rest easy
now."
Hi All
I recently formated my hard drive and re-installed win98SE as well as Office
XP. Since then after about 5 min of in-activity my hard drive starts
working and unless interrupted can go on for about 15-20 min and then stops.
As soon as I go back on the computer the routine starts again. Any idea
what could cause my hard drive to work like this and how I can stop it. I
have a P3 450mhz, 128 megs ram, 20 gig HD. I have disabled Office fast
find. It sounded like it was always trying to defrag itself or some other
software is working away but can't figure out what it really is....help
TIA
Andy Cotnoir
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