Continuous HD activity

[PeterK]

I have the exact symptoms described in an msdn post 17 March 07
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1358958&SiteID=1 to
which there have been no replies. The posts says:

My laptop is doing an incredible amount of disk I/O. Resource Monitor says
that it's being done by PID #4, which is just "System". The file it is
writing two has not only one, but two GUIDs in its name.

What is my system doing? Better yet, how is the average user supposed to
know what's really happening? How do I make sure it's not one of my own
applications?

..B ekiM


Image PID File Read (B/min) Write (B/min) IO Priority
Response Time (ms)
System 4 C:\System Volume
Information\{696b87ef-d44a-11db-b3de-0018f38316d3}{3808876b-c176-4e48-b7ae-04046e6cc752}
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Can anyone point me at an explanation aand a cure?

PeterK

 

[David]

I have the exact symptoms described in an msdn post 17 March 07
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1358958&SiteID=1
to which there have been no replies. The posts says:

My laptop is doing an incredible amount of disk I/O. Resource Monitor
says that it's being done by PID #4, which is just "System". The file
it is writing two has not only one, but two GUIDs in its name.

What is my system doing? Better yet, how is the average user supposed
to know what's really happening? How do I make sure it's not one of my
own applications?

.B ekiM


Image PID File Read (B/min) Write (B/min) IO Priority
Response Time (ms)
System 4 C:\System Volume
Information\{696b87ef-d44a-11db-b3de-0018f38316d3}{3808876b-c176-4e48-b7ae-04046e6cc752}
65526 48021691 Normal 24

Can anyone point me at an explanation aand a cure?

PeterK

Typical processes that thrash the hard drive are:

1. Prefetch
2. Defrag
3. Indexing
4. Virus programs for some time after boot up.

I found that for some time after eaach bootup, Prefetch caused a lot of
disk activity. You can stop those services by running services.msc and
selecting a service and changing it's Startup Type to "disabled".

Dave

 

[PeterK]

Typical processes that thrash the hard drive are:

1. Prefetch
2. Defrag
3. Indexing
4. Virus programs for some time after boot up.

I found that for some time after eaach bootup, Prefetch caused a lot of
disk activity. You can stop those services by running services.msc and
selecting a service and changing it's Startup Type to "disabled".

Dave

Dave
I think you hit it with 3. Indexing. Also thanks for the services
reference - I couldn't for the life of me remember where I'd stopped them in
the past.
PeterK

 

[David]

Dave
I think you hit it with 3. Indexing. Also thanks for the services
reference - I couldn't for the life of me remember where I'd stopped
them in the past.
PeterK

Cool! you're welcome.

Dave