On Mon, 25 Sep 2000 20:04:07 -0600 "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 08:04 PM 9/25/00 -0500, you wrote:
>> I have recently acquired a Toshiba Satelite Pro 400 Laptop, a 75 Mhz
>> Pentium machine with 16 MB of RAM.
>> Whenever I turn the machine on and boot normally to WIN 95 the
>> "drive active" light for my hard drive will flicker for an instant
>> every two seconds. This activity will continue even when I'm not
>> doing anything other than looking at my desktop.
>> If I press F8 during bootup and select "DOS - Command prompt only", then
>> there will be no problem of the periodically flickering "drive active"
>> light. Likewise there is no problem if I select booting to WIN 95 in
>> "safe mode". The problem occurs only whenever I boot normally to WIN 95.
>> Does anyone have any idea as to what might be accessing my hard drive?
>> How can I find out what might be going on here?
>> Sam Heywood
> Could be your swap file or a memory resident application. if you do
> ctrl+alt+delete it will bring up a little window that will show you what is
> currently active on your machine. You can close each item one at a time
> from that dialog box and find out what does or doesn't work as you go.
> by using msconfig: start menu--->run--->type in msconfig --->okay you can
> control what does or doesn't load at startup.
Thanks for the reply, pippi.
I did that. Task Manager reported three programs running: Explorer,
PFPPOP70, and SYSTRAY. (PFPPOP70 is a file from the Corel 7 Office Suite)
Using task manager I was able to end two of the tasks, but I wasn't able
to end Explorer. (I have found that Explorer is a task that normally runs
at all times in my other WIN 95 machine and it doesn't cause problems.
Anyway, Windows 95 will not let me end this task in either machine. I have
no idea why Windows 95 insists on running this program that I never use.)
I sure would like to be able to find out what is accessing my hard drive.
Also thanks for your reply concerning my PCMCIA modem. My machine did
not come with it already installed. I'll get back to you as soon as I
get around to trying to install it. First I want to solve the problem
of whatever is accessing my hard drive.
All the best,
Sam Heywood
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