Excessive Disk Access

[GoTGuy]

Hi all,

I just installed KaZaa Lite v2.4.3. I absolutely love it more than the regular KaZaa, however I am encountering a terrible problem. While KaZaa Lite is running, approximately every 2 1/2 minutes my hard drive starts accessing for about 7 minutes at a time and completely stalls the computer. My hard drive is defraged. I have Windows XP running on a Pentium 3 933MHz and 384 Mb of RAM. I never had this problem running the normal KaZaa program. Anyone have any suggestions? This only occurs while running KaZaa Lite.

Thanks,

Paul :helpsmile:

[Java Boy]

I hope you uninstalled all that extra crap that comes bundled with that OTHER kazaa..that will cause you a lot of problems

edit:in kazaa options theres a box that says "check for new shared files every 300 seconds"...change the 300 to read 3000 or 30000..that way its not using resources every 3 minutes or so to check for new files..its a poofter tool that I cant see any good reason for being there.but hopefully someone will come along and explain the goodness behind this shite thing

[MUSLEMAN]

first of all since you had kmd you need to do this :

save your shared files to a temp folder uninstall any version of kazaa you have, go to program files and delete any kazaa folder you see, go to c:drive>my shared folder delete that, delet your db folder, run adaware then install klite

if the problem continues after that let me know

[ghost123uk]

I have got that problem back again tho on Windows 2000 pro.
The really annoying thing is =
I have had this problem before and fixed it but I can't remember how !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It seems quite common tho.
We will sort it out between us no doubt .............
Keep checking in here
JB

[MUSLEMAN]

emmm its not realy common like that and there are very different possiblities for it, every case is different.

do what i said and let me know

[ghost123uk]

Hi Muscleman
Just for the record......
My version of this problem re-appeared after a complete trash and re-build.
Seperate (entire) Hard drive used for sharing.
Disks thouroughly checked & defragged etc
Win2K Pro fully patched up to date.
Adaware - latest ref file
McAfee AV

A couple of workmates have same problem (I.T. BTW)

I will post as soon as I remember / figure it out the cure

JB

[MUSLEMAN]

Originally posted by ghost123uk@2 February 2004 - 08:40
Hi Muscleman
Just for the record......
My version of this problem re-appeared after a complete trash and re-build.
Seperate (entire) Hard drive used for sharing.
Disks thouroughly checked & defragged etc
Win2K Pro fully patched up to date.
Adaware - latest ref file
McAfee AV

A couple of workmates have same problem (I.T. BTW)

I will post as soon as I remember / figure it out the cure

JB

lol you don't get it i already know the cure boss but i need to go thru them one by one to elaminate things.

now if you wanna fix for it do what i said, exactly as i said it, otherwise good luck

[ghost123uk]

OK

now if you wanna fix for it do what i said, exactly as i said it, otherwise good luck

We have done your suggestions but not right yet.
Perhaps I should keep quiet now and just read on....

[MUSLEMAN]

ive only suggested one or two things there are more but as i said one by one

[GoTGuy]

Yes, I completely uninstalled the old KaZaa and ran Ad-Aware with the latest definitions before I installed KaZaa Lite. I will try changing the "Check for new shared files" value. Do you think using a value of 0 would turn it off completely? Anyway, I will let you know if that seems to work.

Thanks for all your posts! I'll check in here later.