Hard drive won't stop crunching

[the DRIZZLE]

Built this system about a month ago.
Q6600
Abit IP35 Pro
9600GT
WD 640gb HD

I disabled the windows search index service but that doesnt help. Resource monitor shows that svchost.exe (secvcs) keeps accessing the hd. I have antivirus running and have scanned with adaware and spybot.

 

[seemingly random]

Look at the task scheduler to see if anything in there can be disabled or configured differently. This has been an ongoing 'issue' since at least xp. Most of my windows pc's appear to have a ~1 second heartbeat where the disk is being accessed.

It's great that windows has become so sophisticated with all of the background processing. It would be also great if it could be setup so that there is no background processing - except write behind disk cache and the occasional check for s/w updates. perfmon.exe is useful to monitor activity. Also, while experimenting, I'd disable all other apps.

Post back if you find something.

Nice system btw.

 

[postmortemIA]

is it vista? if yes, it is superfetch.

 

[seemingly random]

This doesn't explain a vista pc at rest (idle) with no apps running. After some time passes, superfetch should have nothing more to fetch if there are no new requests from apps.