26.25 Gigaflop supercomputer in a breadbox

[Alberto di Bene]

Philip Miller Tate wrote:
> 
> My PC laptop often sits on my desk unattended. It's not doing any  
> background work for me; the screen saver has kicked in and the screen  
> is blank; all the power-saving options are active; it's not  
> networked; and suddenly the HDD activity LED goes nuts for several  
> minutes at a time.

Could it be that the defragmenter is doing its job ? As far as I know there should be a disk defragmenter in Windows 
that works only when the PC is idle.

73  Alberto  I2PHD