Excessive hard disk activity - please help!

Even with a third party defrag installed, you will have to turn off the
Windows defrag program. Start>Accessories>System Tools>Defrag>turn off
"Run on a Schedule". To view what services and applications are
accessing the hard drive go to Performance and Reliability Monitor in
Control Panel> Administrative Tools. If you expand the headers under the
graph, you can see what is accessing Disk, CPU, Memory and Network.
Windows Defender by default runs at 2 AM, and it uses a lot of resources
and runs a long time- you can change that schedule or turn it off.

Fitz


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Your body is a temple boy,
You ought to treat it well
But you trash the place and rent it out
Like it's some cheap motel - The Badlees