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Old October 21st 18, 03:34 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
pyotr filipivich
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That's my question for the morning: what's running?

When I get up in the morning, I feed the cat, turn on the
computer, and go make coffee. After coffee I come back in the
computer room, and can hear the drive "doing something" Lots of
reading and writing. Or maybe just reading. But I can't tell,
because when I click on Owner account and "log in" - it stops.

So, what was running before I started using the computer? Any
idea for finding out what all is busy before I am?

tschus
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Old October 21st 18, 05:47 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Paul[_32_]
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pyotr filipivich wrote:
That's my question for the morning: what's running?

When I get up in the morning, I feed the cat, turn on the
computer, and go make coffee. After coffee I come back in the
computer room, and can hear the drive "doing something" Lots of
reading and writing. Or maybe just reading. But I can't tell,
because when I click on Owner account and "log in" - it stops.

So, what was running before I started using the computer? Any
idea for finding out what all is busy before I am?

tschus
pyotr


Windows Defender.

Search Indexer.

You can use Sysinternals Process Monitor to do a boot trace.

After you reboot, the procmon23.dll (hidden) DLL the program
injects, it causes the OS to collect ETW events for
later in the session. After you've fed the cat, you enter
the computer room, and run Process Monitor (procmon64.exe)
for the first time that day. It'll ask to save the trace
it's already collected while the cat was eating, and you
can review that trace to see if the Search Indexer is running
or MsMpEng is running.

Now, if it's actually a mysterious third-party application,
it will likely use a descriptive executable name for you
to look up.

There is also a service called SuperFetch, which can get
a bit carried away. But I don't know if that one features
"Back-off" behavior like the two examples above do. When you
click or move the mouse, that's enough to cause back-off
services or programs to stop playing around on you.
It's possible SuperFetch is removed (or renamed) in 1809.

But the behavior is very annoying, since you can never
tell (without using additional tools), what the heck
was going on. I mean, the activity could be Ransomware
encrypting the entire hard drive, and you'd never know
for sure by looking at the screen. You can't tell if
the hard drive light flashing, is "good" flashing or
"bad" flashing.

Paul
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Old October 22nd 18, 01:17 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
JJ[_11_]
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On Sun, 21 Oct 2018 12:47:03 -0400, Paul wrote:

Windows Defender.

Search Indexer.

You can use Sysinternals Process Monitor to do a boot trace.

[snip]

Basically, all services whose Startup-Type is configured as Automatic.
Including scheduled tasks which are configured to run at computer startup.
 




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