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1. Hard disk led light not blinking on startup of ptop drivers#
2. Hard disk led light not blinking on startup of ptop windows#

Note: You can also access the System Properties through the Control Panel, if you like. You can do this before you re-start the system. Repeat the procedure for other CDROM Drives, if you have more than one.

Hard disk led light not blinking on startup of ptop windows#

(Windows will say so, just click OK or Yes when Windows asks.)

You will probably have to re-start your system for the settings to take effect. On the Settings Tab, remove the check in the box next to Auto-insert Notification. Right-click the My Computer icon on the Desktop (it may have a name other than My Computer). You can still run program or game CDs by using any shortcut you have for the program or game, or by double-clicking the executable file for the program or game where you find it on the CD. This will not affect your ability to access the contents of the CD, however. Also, the the displayed contents in the Explorer Pane (file tree) may not change. Note: auto-play will cease to work entirely, and when you change CDs, the name shown in Explorer (of the CD) may not change.

If that is the case, uninstalling the drive from the hardware tree would be your first move, as Windows would then re-detect it on boot.

Hard disk led light not blinking on startup of ptop drivers#

Maybe confused device drivers cause a lot of HDD activity, and the above procedure might possibly help. I have very little experience with SATA, so I don’t know. Sometimes this is a fix for an apparently dead drive, etc. Disconnect drive, boot, shutdown, reconnect drive, boot. I thought it was pretty funny, but, yeah, some other issues with drives can be resolved by resetting the BIOS. No connection=no running drive=no blinkenlights. My interpretation was literal: Just unplug it. P.S.: I really think that the post you were responding to was meant as a joke, just pulling your leg. A lot of things you can just turn off.Īnti-virus/ anti-malware / security programs, depending on their settings, may cause quite a lot of disk activity, even when the system is otherwise idle. Decide if you need the feature, and how much of it you need. You can find out what is running, and check on the programs’ settings to see if it is running in the background all the time. Some of these utils (usually quite small, many are free) will show you what Windows will not. You can also try a task manager like ATM (very nice, you can find it on ) or one of many others. Windows Sysinternals Documentation, downloads and additional resourcesįor some utilities that can show you what is going on inside your system.

WGA is a possibility, especially if you don’t have all the updates yet. There could be other services or processes/threads running in the background that you cannot detect in taskmanager. Try turning off the Indexing feature in Control Panel, or set it to index when you want it to, if you need that feature.