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[Josiah Ritchie]

On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 16:37, N. Thompson wrote:
> I've noticed in Windows that when its left on and I haven't been on it 
> in a while the hard drive comes into use for extended periods of time. I 
> do not think Windows XP is defragmenting during its idle time because 
> I've checked the disk fragmentation after its done that for a while, as 
> far as I can tell I also don't have any spyware or adware or viruses on 
> my computer as this has been happening for a long time and I've been 
> keeping my anti-virus, anti-trojan and anti-spyware software up to date.
> 
> I have a firewall in Windows, I also have anti-virus, anti-trojan and 
> anti-spyware software installed so what could be causing windows to work 
> the computer so hard when its supposed to be idle?

Is antivirus scanning the HD?

JSR/