[TomGuy]

If you use the internet, you are being tracked. Period.

Many times I have awakened in the middle of the night and noticed my modem/router rapidly flashing. Then, even though they are/were in sleep mode, my laptop and/or desktop drives were running furiously.

I just ignore it and figure NSA is collecting its nightly data dump.

:)

[Alas Babylon!]

I know you are joking, but a lot of different updates and maintenance chores are preconfigured to take place in the middle of the night.

For example, Windows 7 is scheduled to do a defrag of the hard drive every Wednesday night at 1:00 AM.

If you go to Control Panel, System and Security, Administrative Tools, and then Task Scheduler, you can expand the Windows node and then look at all the different default tasks and when they run, and even turn them off or change their times to better suit your needs (like for night owls, for example).

[smokingfrog]

That’s your windurs update running.