Disk Chewing

How do I stop Vista from chewing on my disks.
I have had a failure of my C: hard disk and i want to stop Vista from
chewing on my disk. Had to replace it and reinstall everything. Crap!

i.e. How do I turn off indexing!!!
Help !!!

Lorin wrote:

> How do I stop Vista from chewing on my disks.
> I have had a failure of my C: hard disk and i want to stop Vista from
> chewing on my disk. Had to replace it and reinstall everything. Crap!
>
> i.e. How do I turn off indexing!!!
> Help !!!

Indexing will not cause a hard drive to fail. However, you can turn it off
in Services if you like. Run Services as Administrator.

Malke
--
MS-MVP
Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic!
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/#FAQ

Lorin;983156 Wrote:
> How do I stop Vista from chewing on my disks
> I have had a failure of my C: hard disk and i want to stop Vista fro
> chewing on my disk. Had to replace it and reinstall everything. Crap
>
> i.e. How do I turn off indexing!!
> Help !!

Vista doesn't chew on disks to start with. In the SuperFetch featur
loads the dsik defragmenter at a low level in the background along wit
your most often used programs keeping a drive well maintained. The driv
that failed was either worn or saw a defect there

--
Night Hawk

Gigagefalos;983204 Wrote:
> Lorin wrote:> > >
> > > How do I stop Vista from chewing on my disks
> > > I have had a failure of my C: hard disk and i want to stop Vista fro
> > > chewing on my disk. Had to replace it and reinstall everything. Crap
> >
> > > i.e. How do I turn off indexing!!
> > > Help !!
> > > > >
>
> Vista has destroyed more disks than all other OS together! The reaso
> i
> simple: Having the disk working all the time, if a power failur
> occur
> or a shock onto the computer, then its more likely to create ba
> sectors and physical damage. Those who say thrashing a disk all th
> tim
> like vista does should not reduce its lifespan dont know much.
> ignore the
>
> Even solid state disks get worn out faster by vista! Not to mentio
> th
> power consumption footprint it creates... Heck thousands of barrel
> o
> oil MORE are being burnt just to get vista off its ass more than an
> other OS in the past
>
> vista is BAD BAD BAD BAD design. Its a total mess..
>
> a less intrusive way to turn off indexing is reducing the amount o
> indexing locations, by removing all locations but the start menu i
> th
> indexing icon in the control panel,(click modify and then show al
> locations make sure that you expand and make sure that the users an
> of
> line folders are not indexed) I also turn off defende
>
> go start and in search type msconfig see the startup tab for thing
> you dont need
>
> if you have google desktop remove that one as wel

I don't know where you are coming up with that stuff! I've run Vist
since it was released in 2007 and still have yet to see one hard driv
fail in over 10yrs. time! Personally I've found Vista more stable the
previous versions and am currently beta testing 7 seeing additiona
improvements there

--
Night Hawk

right-click your C: drive in MY COMPUTER, select "properties" an
uncheck the box next to "index this drive for faster searching

--
kword88

On Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:24:38 -0800, Frank wrote:

> Gigagefalos wrote:
>> Lorin wrote:
>>> How do I stop Vista from chewing on my disks.
>>> I have had a failure of my C: hard disk and i want to stop Vista from
>>> chewing on my disk. Had to replace it and reinstall everything. Crap!
>>>
>>> i.e. How do I turn off indexing!!!
>>> Help !!!
>>>
>>
>> Vista has destroyed more disks than all other OS together!
>
> Stop lying you dumb stupid idiot!
>
> The reason is
>> simple: Having the disk working all the time, if a power failure occurs
>> or a shock onto the computer, then its more likely to create bad
>> sectors and physical damage. Those who say thrashing a disk all the time
>> like vista does should not reduce its lifespan dont know much.. ignore them
>
> You are an idiot! Hell, you're so incompetent you can't even get one
> little install of Vista to run properly.
>>
>> Even solid state disks get worn out faster by vista!
>
> Bullshit!
>
> <---deleted the rest of this idiots lying diatribe as a public service--->
>
> To the OP:
> The disk accessing by Vista will cease after a short initial period.
> Don't worry about it. It is indexing and learning and adjusting to your
> personal computer use and habits. In essence, you are training your
> computer.
> Pay no attention to this nym shifting jackass...he's ignorance about
> Vista is wildly known.

The other poster knows what he is talking about. This Frank just rants
and rants. I would not listen to anything he says. He has no
creditability.

On Wed, 04 Mar 2009 09:46:14 +0200, Gigagefalos wrote:

> Frank wrote:
>> Gigagefalos wrote:
>>> Lorin wrote:
>
>>
>> To the OP:
>> The disk accessing by Vista will cease after a short initial period.
>> Don't worry about it. It is indexing and learning and adjusting to your
>> personal computer use and habits. In essence, you are training your
>> computer.
>> Pay no attention to this nym shifting jackass...he's ignorance about
>> Vista is wildly known.
>
>
> Your ass-umption is that all people use their computers like you do. To
> do nothing but post crap in newsgroups!
>
> To the OP
>
> Ignore this big fat bafoon! I know what I am talking about, He does not.

ha ha ha ha I love it.
>
> If you have lots of files coming and going, (example downloads with
> torrents) thousands of emails a day (lots of people do get thousands a
> day you know) and generally lots of changes made to your system each
> day, indexing NEVER STOPS! It goes along crunching and crunching.
>
> The only way is to reduce the indexing down to minimal locations as I
> described or turn the darn thing off completely!

The cons outweigh the pros

Measekite Delusional Disorder (MDD) is a psychiatric diagnosis denoting a
psychotic mental illness that involves holding one or more non-bizarre
delusions and assigns imaginary names to posters especially in Vista type
forums.

In the absence of any other significant psychopathology (signs or symptoms
of mental illness). In particular, a person with Measekite
Delusional Disorder (MDD) has never met a woman or had sex with another
human, although tactile (touch) or olfactory (smell) hallucinations may be
present if they are related to the theme of the delusion.

A person with Measekite Delusional Disorder can't be functional and tends to
show odd or bizarre behavior aside from these delusions.
"Despite the encapsulation of the delusional system and the relative sparing
of the personality, the patient's way of life is likely to
become more and more overwhelmed by the dominating effect of the abnormal
beliefs".

Measekite Delusional Disorder (MDD) is a psychiatric diagnosis denoting a
psychotic mental illness that involves holding one or more non-bizarre
delusions and assigns imaginary names to posters especially in Vista type
forums.

In the absence of any other significant psychopathology (signs or symptoms
of mental illness). In particular, a person with Measekite
Delusional Disorder (MDD) has never met a woman or had sex with another
human, although tactile (touch) or olfactory (smell) hallucinations may be
present if they are related to the theme of the delusion.

A person with Measekite Delusional Disorder can't be functional and tends to
show odd or bizarre behavior aside from these delusions.
"Despite the encapsulation of the delusional system and the relative sparing
of the personality, the patient's way of life is likely to
become more and more overwhelmed by the dominating effect of the abnormal
beliefs".

"Lorin" <> wrote in message
news:C480499A-51EC-4A7D-990E-...
> How do I stop Vista from chewing on my disks.
> I have had a failure of my C: hard disk and i want to stop Vista from
> chewing on my disk. Had to replace it and reinstall everything. Crap!
>
> i.e. How do I turn off indexing!!!
> Help !!!
>

If you feed your disk, it won't chew your disk