Overworked hard drive

[RickP]

My hard drive (160Gb) is being accessed all the time even though I have 512Mb memory, I am running XP Pro. Can anyone tell me how to eleviate the constant noise from the hard drive

[2k dummy]

Try turning off Indexing service (and any other services that you don't need). Indexing service is a resource hog, disc intensive, and about as useful as *censored* on a boar hog.