Why my hard drive is so active when my calculation goes to sleep?

Why is my hard drive so active when the screensaver on my computer? Even after I wake up the computer the hard drive screen saver mode remains active for a long time?

My computer - HP Compaq Presario sr5612f

Hi GreatNate,

What type of screen saver do you use? Is one that is preinstalled on the PC, or one that you have installed yourself?

The processes you mentioned below are some typical process Intenet Explorer, Task Manager (since you opened it to display) and then dmw.exe.

The dmw file is actually one that you can change the settings to see more system resources. This is a HP support document that explains How to increase the system resources in Vista. Pay special attention to step on the set of non-essential graphics features.

Here is a web page that explains more about dmw if you are interested.

http://www.howtogeek.com/HOWTO/Windows-Vista/what-is-dwmexe-and-why-is-it-running/

Let us know how it goes.

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