Help; Laptop runs very slow when a CD is in the drive, lot of CD disk activity

[Al Dykes]

I've got a user who has a brand-new laptop with XP/pro. I took it out
of the box and set it up for him Friday afternoon. I spent enough time
moving his docs and outlook to satisfy myself that the machine was
running fine.

Saturday I get a panic call from the (very non-technical) User, saying
the machine has slowed to a crawl. A little over-the-phone debugging
found that there was a CD in the drive and XP was hitting it hard.
The CD contained lots of html text for a web site under development.

Can anyone guess what software was reading the CDROM ? I suspect XP
is somehow trying to "index" it. This is a stock system and the user
whouldn't have selected anything optional.



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Al Dykes
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[Diggy]

It's not the autoplay, is it? I noticed that can take a 'long' time if the
cd is full.

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"Al Dykes" > wrote in message
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> I've got a user who has a brand-new laptop with XP/pro. I took it out
> of the box and set it up for him Friday afternoon. I spent enough time
> moving his docs and outlook to satisfy myself that the machine was
> running fine.
>
> Saturday I get a panic call from the (very non-technical) User, saying
> the machine has slowed to a crawl. A little over-the-phone debugging
> found that there was a CD in the drive and XP was hitting it hard.
> The CD contained lots of html text for a web site under development.
>
> Can anyone guess what software was reading the CDROM ? I suspect XP
> is somehow trying to "index" it. This is a stock system and the user
> whouldn't have selected anything optional.
>
>
>
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> Al Dykes
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