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Strange disk activity

I notice disk activity under Windows 95 although I'm not using the computer at this momemt. What could be the cause for this?

There are several possible reasons for this.

  • If you see a periodic short flickering of the harddisk LED, then what you see is that Windows 95 is periodically checking your CD-ROM drive if you inserted a new CD. This is needed so that the Autoplay feature of Windows 95 can work.
  • Another possibility is that within one minute of closing a program (or releasing a lot of memory within a program) Windows 95 will rearrange the swapfile to reduce the swapfile size. This will cause heavy disk activity that stops by itself after a few seconds.
  • A third possibility is that you are running System Agent from Microsoft Plus! which has just started ScanDisk or Defrag to run in the background.
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