"Yousuf Khan" wrote in message
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On 02/12/2010 1:50 PM, Rod Speed wrote:
Yousuf Khan wrote:
Peter Foldes wrote

Start\Run\Services.msc\scroll down to Indexing right
click\Properties and select Disable and then Apply. Did that stop your
HD from thrashing

It hasn't happened again recently, so I can't try that yet.

You sure its not just your antivirus doing a scan ? What are you using
antivirus wise ?

Yup, I'd see processor usage with an anti-virus scan. I'm using AVG in
this case.

Yousuf Khan

The next time it happens, use Process Monitor. PM shows
complete real time details on every disk activity, along with
all registry and process transactions. Disk-only transactions
can be displayed, or recorded for analysis, which is the best
way, as up to 10,000 events a second are intercepted. Also,
some of the lines of data can be hundreds of characters wide,
especially when the registry is involved.

PM is available he
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s.../bb896645.aspx