On 02/19/2010 01:52 AM, Gas Bag wrote:
I've recently installed Windows XP Home on a partitioned hard drive.
The C: Drive (which contains the operating system) is about 10GB, and
the D: Drive is about 18GB. I have the most horrendous case of hard
drive thrashing that I've ever come across. It's particularly bad
whenever I open up an Internet Explorer 8 webpage, even if that page
is simply sitting idle. I confirmed this when I downloaded and ran
"Process Explorer". I don't have Norton installed on my system, and
I've defragged both my C: and D: Drives, as well as cleaning out all
temp folders.
I recently followed these instructions:

http://bucarotechelp.com/computers/w...s/95021801.asp

But still this problem of thrashing continues. It's got so bad my
system freezes (or comes very close to it). Please help!

It sounds like disk doctor program is in order to defrag you system.
There is actually a defrag built into Windows 7 but I haven't used it yet.