Dante103

Wow and thank you, thank you, thank you all for your help. Will have to try those fixes tomorrow but you cannot know how greatly I appreciate your help.

Ty for the response. Did the ctl alt del thing for 2 days. Windows explorer always comes out on top. Have not tried the uninstall but will do that sometime today. Now this is occuring both on my desk top and note book computers. And only since I installed Office XP. Notebook is a toshiba Satellite 1625 and desk top is hp pavillion with pII. (notebook has athelon 475mhz processor). It does appear to be something in the back ground because when I click the mouse or touch a key the activity stops but after about 1 min of inactivity the drive starts up again and goes and goes and goes. The interesting thing is that this is occuring on both systems and the only change to both was the install of Office XP and it started almost immediately. Another interesting thing is that if I do the ctl alt del and leave the screen up it stops the disk activity!!. Thanks again for you advice on the uninstall. Dante out.

I installed Office XP and since then (on my notebook && desktop) the hard drive keeps going and going and going and going... Anyone else run into this problem?