>Disable desktop search (but then, that's one of the cool things about Vista)
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>>That is one of my other major peeves about Vista. On every machine I work with that has Vista on it, the disk drive (at least the system disk) is working almost nonstop always. The machine can be sitting idle (user interface wise anyway) overnight with no screen saver and the drive activity goes on and on and on...

Already done. I thought that might be the culprit, but the activity is still there.