Re: Excessive disc activity at boot up after 896688 and 904706

Could also be that FastFind is doing a reindex of your disk.

"Martin C" <> wrote in message
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> As the header states, I updated my Win 98SE machine with the 2 MS updates of
> 896688 (IE6 update) and 904706 (DirectX9 update).
>
> Without having added anything else to the computer, I have noticed that
> after the usual boot up period of the PC, the hard disk is trashing around
> for a full 2 minutes after everything else has normally finished.
>
> I have performed a full scan of the drive with antivirus (Etrust) and
> spyware programs (AdAware, Spybot S&D, Pest Patrol and Spy Sweeper). No
> problems have been found.
>
> When the drive is thrashing away, I used the FileMonitor program to see what
> is going on. It would appear that the entire contents of my hard drives is
> being read.
>
> I will concede that my machine is old with an ATA33 (yes you read it
> correctly - 33, not 133) controller and motherboard. Could it be that one of
> the updates is checking the drives, but because my machine is old, it is
> taking such a long time?
>
> Does one of the updates perform this action, or is there something else I
> should be looking for?
>
> TIA
>
> Martin
>
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