Creamy_Goodness
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hi guys...
a minor irritation ....
My harddrives run quite loud, and are the only real source of my PC's noise while (I'm) trying to sleep - (running a Zalman controller to take care of the fans).
So if I'm running d/l overnight, I'd like to do it straight to a USB device, bypassing any HD activity so that it can suspend.
Obviously the first thing i tried was directly saving to the device, but it still writes an intermediate file to the HD which keeps it alive.
Second thing was changing the environment variables to write TMP data to the USB drive, without success.
Last thing i tried was setting my Temporary Internet Files to the USB, with some degree of success, though something is still pinging the drive periodically to start it up.
The only "resident" 3rd party software running is Avast, so I dunno if that's the cause...(running XP MCE 2005)
Is there any definitave way of writing directly to USB in this scenario?
This is not really a problem, but I'm curious to know if anyone out there has tried this with success...
a minor irritation ....
My harddrives run quite loud, and are the only real source of my PC's noise while (I'm) trying to sleep - (running a Zalman controller to take care of the fans).
So if I'm running d/l overnight, I'd like to do it straight to a USB device, bypassing any HD activity so that it can suspend.
Obviously the first thing i tried was directly saving to the device, but it still writes an intermediate file to the HD which keeps it alive.
Second thing was changing the environment variables to write TMP data to the USB drive, without success.
Last thing i tried was setting my Temporary Internet Files to the USB, with some degree of success, though something is still pinging the drive periodically to start it up.
The only "resident" 3rd party software running is Avast, so I dunno if that's the cause...(running XP MCE 2005)
Is there any definitave way of writing directly to USB in this scenario?
This is not really a problem, but I'm curious to know if anyone out there has tried this with success...