Hi Will,

I had a similar problem on Win98 and tracked it down to a utility called FindFast. I *think* it installed with Office.

In any case, once I found it and set its options to 'never' (or maybe some very long interval) it stopped. I also noticed *no* impact otherwise (still not sure exactly what it was doing for me).

good luck,

JimN

>Hi all,
>
>This is not a VFP related question, but I thought someone may be able to shed some light anyway...
>
>If I leave my laptop unused, the HDD goes into sleep mode after about 5 minutes, but something in W2k access the HDD every 10 minutes or so.. causing the the drive to spin up again..
>I have tried closing down all non essential tasks, but it still does it.
>
>This especially winds me up if I am watching a DVD on the laptop, because the HDD startup causes the video to stutter (every 10 minutes) and also makes a bit of noise.
>
>Anyone got any ideas?
>
>TIA
>
>Will