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Old March 7th 10, 01:04 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Jan Philips
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Sometimes something accesses my HD once every second for long period
of time. Is there an easy way to find out what this is?
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Old March 7th 10, 01:24 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Jan Philips wrote:
Sometimes something accesses my HD once every second for long period
of time. Is there an easy way to find out what this is?


Easy is relative...

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/cports.html
CurrPorts: Monitoring TCP/IP network connections on Windows

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s.../bb897437.aspx
TCPView for Windows

http://www.wireshark.org/
Wireshark · Go deep.

John
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Old March 7th 10, 01:32 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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"Jan Philips" wrote in message
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Sometimes something accesses my HD once every second for long period
of time. Is there an easy way to find out what this is?


It is possible that it's the indexer, if you have Microsoft Search 4
installed.




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Old March 7th 10, 01:41 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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On Sat, 6 Mar 2010 20:32:53 -0500, "Patrick Keenan"
wrote:

It is possible that it's the indexer, if you have Microsoft Search 4
installed.


Indexing is off. AFAIK, I don't have search 4 installed.

(It isn't doing it right now, but it was yesterday.)
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Old March 7th 10, 01:54 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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On Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:24:21 -0400, John John - MVP
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Jan Philips wrote:
Sometimes something accesses my HD once every second for long period
of time. Is there an easy way to find out what this is?


Easy is relative...

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/cports.html
CurrPorts: Monitoring TCP/IP network connections on Windows

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s.../bb897437.aspx
TCPView for Windows

http://www.wireshark.org/
Wireshark · Go deep.


TCPView showed things happening, but none of them were regular
once-a-second. I ran CurrPorts, and I didn't know what to look for,
but then the HD accesses stopped again.
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Old March 7th 10, 02:10 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
John John - MVP[_2_]
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Jan Philips wrote:
On Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:24:21 -0400, John John - MVP
wrote:

Jan Philips wrote:
Sometimes something accesses my HD once every second for long period
of time. Is there an easy way to find out what this is?

Easy is relative...

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/cports.html
CurrPorts: Monitoring TCP/IP network connections on Windows

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s.../bb897437.aspx
TCPView for Windows

http://www.wireshark.org/
Wireshark · Go deep.


TCPView showed things happening, but none of them were regular
once-a-second. I ran CurrPorts, and I didn't know what to look for,
but then the HD accesses stopped again.


Sorry, the above are for network activity, try this instead:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s.../bb896645.aspx
Process Monitor

John
 




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