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Discussions tagged with 'drive activity' on WindowsForum.com focus on troubleshooting abnormal hard drive behavior in Windows systems. Common issues include prolonged boot or shutdown delays where no drive activity is heard, resource monitor showing a hard drive at 100% active time even when idle, and system lockups after periods of inactivity accompanied by high drive activity. Users often investigate potential causes such as antivirus software, indexing, or power settings. The tag covers practical advice for diagnosing and resolving these performance problems.
  1. seekermeister

    Windows 7 Slow Motion Boot

    One of the reasons that I decided to do a clean installation of Windows is that sometimes it seems that activity on boot sometimes simply ceases for a prolonged period of time, like a minute or two with a black screen after login. So far I haven't experienced that on the new installation, but...
    • seekermeister
    • Thread
    • black screen boot issues clean install drive activity hardware testing memory test motherboard slow shutdown system performance windows installation
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Hardware
  2. E

    Windows 7 Resource Monitor has one of my Hds always at 100% active

    I keep putting the drive offline because im wary of having it always active. It may have something to do with avast antivirus because thats the image thats listed next to the files in those drives. I checked with avast and it doesnt appear to be running any scans and theres no way I can find...
    • Eric B
    • Thread
    • 100% activity antivirus disk performance drive activity drive offline feedback hard drive resource monitor scanning issues troubleshooting
    • Replies: 11
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
  3. E

    Windows 7 In Gods name will W7 stop locking up on me after leaving it alone for a few 20 minute

    Windows 7 will not lock up on me if I am constantly moving the mouse or doing something like being active on the PC, if I leave the pc, as if it knows I am away from it and locks the frick up. I have max performance set for power plan I have disabled everything goes to sleep or hibernation etc...
    • epk1950
    • Thread
    • computer issues drive activity hibernation indexing lockup performance power plan sleep mode troubleshooting windows 7
    • Replies: 18
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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