Speccy auto open storage view

[micha22]

Hi!

If I close a data carrier with the arrow in Speccy 1.32.774 64 Bit Free on Windows 10 in the storage view, it opens again after 2 seconds at the latest. I don't have a chance to look at the lower volumes. How can I switch off this auto-open?

Thanks

[nukecad]

(I assume that by 'data carrier' you mean 'storage media'?)

What kind of storage devices are you refering to? (HDD, SDD, USB stick, data card?).

What you describe sound like a refresh of the data in Speccy.

If Speccy sees a change in the data that it is reporting then that will prompt Speccy to do a refresh of that data.

You can see this quite easily for yourself with storage media - if you have Speccy open and plug/unplug a USB stick then Speccy will do a refresh as it reads or removes the USB stick from the displayed information for storage devices.

Note that it doesn't have to be something as obvious as a drive being connected/disconnected that is causing your particular refreshing, any change to the data that Speccy reports could cause Speccy to do a refresh.
But as it is re-ordering what is being displayed in 'Storage' then that would seem to indicate that Windows is seeing a drive as being connected/disconnected.

[micha22]

Hi and thanks for the answer. I've attached a screenshot and marked in red the arrow I wrote about. When I close the tab for this data carrier, it does not stay closed but keeps opening again unintentionally. How can I stop this?

Please excuse the bad english, i use google translate.

Thanks

[nukecad]

Thanks, for confirming that I had understood what you were meaning.

As I said above;

Windows (and so Speccy) is seeing some change to the drives on your computer.

I can easily make my Speccy do the same thing, I close the details for my C drive like so and it will stay closed unless something changes:

But then if I simply pull out the Flash Drive, without doing anything else, the details reopen like so:

 

So something is telling your Windows, (and so telling Speccy), that a drive status has been changed on your computer, maybe telling it that that a drive has been turned on or off.

Just what is telling Windows that a drive status has been changed, and just which drive has been changed, you will need to investigate further.
As it seems to be happening every 2 seconds for you then:
It may be some software turning a drive on/off all the time?
It may be a fault in a connection?
It may be a fault with a Drive?

Looking at the Windows Event Viewer may give you a clue as to what is causing it to happen.

What other Storage devices apart from that Seagate do you have connected?

[micha22]

That was an interesting search and I found the culprit: a card reader!
Many thanks for the help!

 

[nukecad]

Good to hear you found what was causing it.

I suspected it would be something like a USB stick or a memory card.

Was there a card in the reader, or was it just constantly being polled/checked to see if you had inserted a card?

[micha22]

No media inserted, it just constantantly being polled/checked to see if had inserted a card.

A bad product. It flew through the window ...

 

Thanks a lot!

[nukecad]

36 minutes ago, micha22 said:

A bad product. It flew through the window ...

Maybe a bit drastic and you could probably have found some way to turn the constant polling off, but fair enough.