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In article <NEWTNews.824709312.14041.dadkins@dadkins.ianet.net>, David Adkins <dadkins@mail.ianet.net> wrote:
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>Bob I was just getting ready to ask the same question. I
>have noticed the same thing since I upgraded from Windows 3.11
>to Windows 95.
>However I have noticed it only while the computer is idle.
>Must be some way to increase sales of HDs after wearing them out!
>
>If anybody knows the real reason, I'd be interested to know.

I didn't catch the first post but I can imagine what the question is.  
Your doing nothing but staring at the girlie picture you just 
downloaded and all of a sudden the HD light starts flickering - your 
not even touching the thing let alone DL'ing anything.

The answer is called PREPAGING - during idle periods Win 95 decides to 
start writing memory contents to the HD into the swap file - now mind 
you the stuff is *still* in the memory - 95 just does it so the the 
contents are already paged out to virtual memory should you call upon 
95 to divey up some more of this virtual stuff.

It's designed to increase performance but it seems a nusence.  Good 
news is that if you have over 16 meg of memory it just about 
disappears - that is until you start loading the system up withh all 
kinds of apps, even in this day and age a lot of people still don't 
do this in ernest.  To most people "real" multitasking is reading the 
paper while using the john!

Hope this is the answer to your question.

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