At 10:56 AM 3/23/00 -0500, you wrote:
> Some program on my computer, in Windows 98, is accessing
>the hard drive every 17 minutes, and I'd like to know what program it is,
>and what file it is opening.
>Thanks.
>
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Could be the swap file, perhaps? For those who may not know about it, a
swap file is like a RAM extension. it sits on the hard drive, like a table
behind your desk where you stick the extra reference books you have for the
document you are writing. You bring one book to the desk, with the other
four open behind you, copy the reference, then put it back and grab another
from behind you. Like this, the computer uses the RAM like your desk, and
the swap like that table. Command codes currently in direct use are kept
in RAM to the extent that the space will allow, and swapped back and forth
between that file as needed. If your disk is accessing too much, this
means that you have too little RAM for the job at hand. Either reduce the
job, increase the RAM, or wear out the drive.
Even when your machine is sitting idle it will check the swap drive
periodically, either because simply running the TSRs and drawing the screen
requires it, or because it makes sure it "remembers" what may be in
there. If you have no TSRs running save the operating system, you might
want to enable power saving managment options available in your operating
system to suspend the computer when idle. (consider the screen saver as a
memory drain)
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