something accessing my HD once per second

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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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> 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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On Sat, 6 Mar 2010 20:32:53 -0500, "Patrick Keenan"

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>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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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/sysinternals/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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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/sysinternals/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/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx

Process Monitor



John
 
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