From: ithinkiam@gmail.com   
      
   Mr. Man-wai Chang  wrote:   
   > On 2/20/2026 12:34 AM, micky wrote:   
   >>   
   >> I should have thought of those, but...   
   >>   
   >>> A virus scan?   
   >>   
   >> Been happeing now for 3.5 hours, and maybe last night too.  No scan   
   >> takes that long.   
   >>   
   >>> Automatic defrag?   
   >>   
   >> Just wrote the files yesterday to a blank flashdrive, 3GB into a 16GB   
   >> drive.  No fragmenting to defrag. ---  But in general, do I have   
   >> automatic defragging?  How would I know?   
   >   
   > Just my wild guesses. I am also curious about the constantly flashing HD   
   > LED as well, not just the USB ports!!   
   >   
   > Back in the MS-DOS single-user, no-networking days, everything was more   
   > certain. The floppy diskette drive never ever made a sound suddenly. :)   
      
   Oh yes, it did. Especially in MS Word. It would often randomly seek to all   
   physical drives when doing other actions. It was some deep-seated   
   assumption that everything would be stored on a removable disk and it   
   needed to check that it was still there before doing anything.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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