Guest Kevin Posted August 6, 2007 Posted August 6, 2007 My system is /constantly/ pounding the hard drive, even when I have no user applications running. Is there a tool or utility that will tell me what is constanting hitting the drive? I have checked for virus and rootkit infection and come up clean. Any suggestions to discover what is constantly paging or writing to the disk? I'm running XPPro, v5.1 SP2 thanks kevin
Guest db ´¯`·.. > Posted August 6, 2007 Posted August 6, 2007 Re: Constant hard drive thrash might be an oversized/underused swap file. might help to make it smaller. could be indexing service. might help to disable it - for a while. could be a highly fragmented hd. might help to defrag. could be spyware. you already know what to do with this. -- db ·´¯`·.¸. , . .·´¯`·..><)))º>`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·...¸><)))º>¸. ><)))º>·´¯`·.¸. , . .·´¯`·.. ><)))º>`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·...¸><)))º> .. "Kevin" <Kevin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:40BEED40-63F1-4CA6-9CC6-E58F47FF1796@microsoft.com... > My system is /constantly/ pounding the hard drive, even when I have no > user > applications running. Is there a tool or utility that will tell me > what is > constanting hitting the drive? I have checked for virus and rootkit > infection and come up clean. Any suggestions to discover what is > constantly > paging or writing to the disk? I'm running XPPro, v5.1 SP2 > > thanks > > kevin
Guest Ron Badour Posted August 6, 2007 Posted August 6, 2007 Re: Constant hard drive thrash Another possibility--do you have MS Office 97 or 2000 installed? If so: OFF97: How to Disable the Find Fast Indexer [Q158705] http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q158/7/05.asp OFF2000: How to Turn Off the Find Fast Indexer [Q199787] http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q199/7/87.asp -- Regards Ron Badour MS MVP 1997 - 2007 "Kevin" <Kevin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:40BEED40-63F1-4CA6-9CC6-E58F47FF1796@microsoft.com... > My system is /constantly/ pounding the hard drive, even when I have no > user > applications running. Is there a tool or utility that will tell me what > is > constanting hitting the drive? I have checked for virus and rootkit > infection and come up clean. Any suggestions to discover what is > constantly > paging or writing to the disk? I'm running XPPro, v5.1 SP2 > > thanks > > kevin
Guest Mike Lowery Posted August 6, 2007 Posted August 6, 2007 Re: Constant hard drive thrash "Kevin" <Kevin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:40BEED40-63F1-4CA6-9CC6-E58F47FF1796@microsoft.com... > My system is /constantly/ pounding the hard drive, even when I have no user > applications running. Is there a tool or utility that will tell me what is > constanting hitting the drive? I have checked for virus and rootkit > infection and come up clean. Any suggestions to discover what is constantly > paging or writing to the disk? I'm running XPPro, v5.1 SP2 Run Task Manager and see how much physical memory is remaining. If it's all used up, HD paging is normal. Otherwise it could be a virus scan, indexing, or malware. Windows perfmon might help in tracking it down.
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