Digital BW, The Print

Sounds like Windows housekeeping. Often file indexing, but there are host of critical useless services.

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On 6/26/2009 at 9:40 AM Richard Smallfield wrote:

>Hi,
>I wonder if anyone can help me with a problem.
>
>Contrary to logic, my computer slows down when I have an external 750GB
>archived images hard drive switched on. (The disc also has a scratch
>partition for Photoshop. I use a laptop - but otherwise, funds permitting,
>would have a RAID scratch array.)
>
>The thing is, when I switch on this external drive, the internal hard
>drive spins like mad for ages - half an hour? Ages, anyway. And the
>computer becomes impossibly slow.
>
>I thought it was McAfee doing a scan this morning (which it was doing), so
>I turned off the scan, but still the hard drive was going nuts for half an
>hour or so.
>
>So, power management issues aside, I leave my four external hard drives
>turned off unless I need them for something.
>
>Can anyone suggest a reason why this might be happening?
>
>thanks,
>Richard
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