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Vista disk activity, turn off "shadow copies"

Annoyed by Windows Vista constast disk activity? If you have a desktop you may not even notice, but in a laptop it is utterly annoying.

To me, turning off "shadow copies" resolved my problem. Right click on computer, properties, go to the system protection tab (wait a few seconds) and uncheck your hard drives. Read the help file if you need more info on "shadow copies" which is basically a small version control system that, in my case, was not needed.

Why is it "on" by default... well, because is a feature right? they had to turn it on otherwise who would use it? ;)

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