I had the same problem, at least in 98. It is a program called findfast. It
links or archives or does something like that. You can disable it, but it
likes to respawn. My advice is to write a script that kills the findfast
process whenever it shows up.
Colin Percival wrote:
> This question came up about a year ago, and I can neither remember what
> the answer was, nor find it in the archives.
> Someone stated that running prime95 under windows they experienced
> periodic hard drive activity, without any reason for it. Other people
> noted that they had experienced the same problem even while not running
> prime95.
> I did not experience this until a few days ago when I upgraded from 64MB
> to 128MB of RAM; since then, irregardless of what programs I have running,
> my hard drive will, within a couple days, start 'clicking' (ie, short
> bursts of activity) exactly once per second. It keeps on doing so until I
> restart windows. (BTW, I am running win2k RC2, but it seems that this
> occurs over all versions of win32).
>
> I know this isn't related to Mersenne primes, but I'm hoping that someone
> will remember the discussion and be able to help me.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Colin Percival
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