Digger wrote:

I recently discovered the Everything application and have installed it
on my PCs.

What I have found is rather illuminating and maybe disturbing.

Start it up, add all the drives including your NAS and external USB etc.

Let if initialize.

Then click on the column Date Modified. (Until the date is ordered for
most recent at the top)

Watch how Windows and a bunch of other apps chew away at your drives by
continually writing to your drives.

I would be nice if a log could be generated so after leaving this going
for a day or three you could study what the heck is going on in the
background while you are merrily going about your own business.

SysInternals' Process Monitor
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sys...nloads/procmon
Define its filters on what you want to monitor. The log can become
rather huge resulting in slowing down your PC. So, remember to turn it
off when done using it.

You cross-posted to multiple newsgroups. Process Monitor supports
Winodws Vista, and upward. There might be an older version of Process
Monitor that supported Windows XP.