Hi all,
Despite keeping a lean, mean and clean XP install, the HDD light on my
PC briefly flashes once per second, all of the time.
Being slightly bothered by this activity, I ran process monitor and
traced it down to the registry access shown in the screenshot below.
Process monitor doesn't show any hard drive access that coincides with
the light flashing, so my questions are:
Why is the light flashing for non HDD activity?
What do those registry values do and can I stop the constant access?
TIA
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steve <AT> steveevans <DOT> org
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We don't know anything about your system, perhaps you have some
malicious software and we can't see your screenshot. Without more
information you can only get guesses as a response.
Download, install, update and do a full scan with these free malware
detection programs:
Malwarebytes (MBAM):
http://malwarebytes.org/
SUPERAntiSpyware: (SAS):
http://www.superantispyware.com/
They can be uninstalled later if desired.
Click Start, Run and in the box enter:
msinfo32
Click OK, and when the System Summary info appears, click Edit, Select
All, Copy and then paste back here.
There would be some personal information (like System Name and User
Name) or whatever appears to be only your business that you can delete
from the paste.
If you want use to see your screenshot here, you need to do something
like this:
To create and email/post/print a screenshot:
Press the Print Scrn button to copy your entire screen to the Windows
clipboard.
Press Alt Print Scrn to copy just the active window to the Windows
clipboard.
Open MS Paint:
Start, Program Accessories, Paint
When Paint opens, press CTRL-V to paste the clipboard, save the new
Paint file to your desktop or someplace you can remember. JPG files
take up less hard disk space than BMP files and just as readable.
Make as many screenshots as you need. Practice makes perfect. Be
careful your screenshot does not contain any personal information.
Practice viewing your images before you upload them to be sure they
are okay.
Some sites will let you attach a file directly to your post. If the
site has some kind of attachment/upload function it is usually easiest
just to use it.
If there is no such function in your message board to upload files,
then use a free third party image hosting WWW site.
Create a free account on some free picture hosting web site. You can
always remove your account later if you want. Here are some free
image hosting sites:
http://www.imageshack.us/
http://photobucket.com/
Using your free account, upload your screenshot(s) (the JPG or BMP
files) to the site and it will return to you a URL web address (a
Direct Link) for your new image(s) which you can paste the Direct Link
in a message post, email, etc.
When you are done, what you post for others to use should look
something like this:
http://img693.imageshack.us/img693/9074/processexplorer.jpg