Constant hard drive thrash

[Guest]

My system is /constantly/ pounding the hard drive, even when I have no user
applications running. Is there a tool or utility that will tell me what is
constanting hitting the drive? I have checked for virus and rootkit
infection and come up clean. Any suggestions to discover what is constantly
paging or writing to the disk? I'm running XPPro, v5.1 SP2

thanks

kevin

 

[Guest]

might be an oversized/underused
swap file. might help to make it
smaller.

could be indexing service. might
help to disable it - for a while.

could be a highly fragmented
hd. might help to defrag.

could be spyware. you already
know what to do with this.

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[Ron Badour]

Another possibility--do you have MS Office 97 or 2000 installed? If so:

OFF97: How to Disable the Find Fast Indexer [Q158705]
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q158/7/05.asp

OFF2000: How to Turn Off the Find Fast Indexer [Q199787]
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q199/7/87.asp

 

[Mike Lowery]

My system is /constantly/ pounding the hard drive, even when I have no user
applications running. Is there a tool or utility that will tell me what is
constanting hitting the drive? I have checked for virus and rootkit
infection and come up clean. Any suggestions to discover what is constantly
paging or writing to the disk? I'm running XPPro, v5.1 SP2

Run Task Manager and see how much physical memory is remaining. If it's all
used up, HD paging is normal. Otherwise it could be a virus scan, indexing, or
malware. Windows perfmon might help in tracking it down.