Quote - I suspect the unwanted process is Indexing.. that will run big drives for days... seems the OS does not look at Processor usage, but Mouse or keyboard Usage for whether there is activity. Not sure if that is what is causing all your HD access, but you can check by turning off Indexing. Oddly, if you let it finish and the Drives are local, not external, it seems to clear up. I have noticed on Vista that it attempts to reindex my Network and External Drives each time I access them, so I turned it off on them.

I thought indexing might be the problem, too, a few days ago.  I turned off indexing for Windows and I set searchIndexed="0" in the LibraryPrefs.xml.  But I did that before I reported the drive grind-related lagging, within this thread.  It seems that Poser or Windows is doing something it won't divulge, which I can't stop.

For some reason, Dr. Hibbard is in my head.  He says, "My diagnosis?  Bad babysitting!"

But I'm not sure what he means.  Hmm.  My subconscious is strangely hyperactive today.    :unsure:

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Cage can be an opinionated jerk who posts without thinking.  He apologizes for this.  He's honestly not trying to be a turkeyhead.

Cage had some freebies, compatible with Poser 11 and below.  His Python scripts were saved at archive.org, along with the rest of the Morphography site, where they were hosted.