hard drive is continually working

[leegold58]

One thing I notice about XP is that the hard drive is continually
working - not hard, but it never stops.

lsass.exe
svchost.exe
explorer.exe

even when I'm doing nothing.

win2000 was not this "busy". Is this normal? Can I turn it down?

 

[William R. Walsh]

Hi!

What sort of hardware are you running Windows XP on? If you don't have
enough RAM installed, that could make for a hard drive that constantly
churns.

I'd also suggest looking for any nastyware or viruses that may have snuck
into your system.

William

 

[Bob I]

Likely Indexing is on for file searching. See Help and Support, Indexing.

 

[Gerry]

Process Explorer provides more information than Task Manager.

Download Process Explorer.

For further information about Process Explorer see here:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/SystemInformation/ProcessExplorer.mspx

To ascertain which service is causing the problem select the svchost
producing the high CPU usage, right click, select Properties,
Services. Note there are the full names and some explanation of what
each service does.

You will find further information on Services here:
http://majorgeeks.com/page.php?id=12

To trace the particular Service involved you need to turn off each
service in turn and then restore it noting what effect it has on CPU
usage. However, you need to take care and watch what other Services
are dependent on that service. When you click on the Dependencies
tab allow it a little time to display the information.

It would be helpful if you could post the Command Line of the svchost
process generating the excessive CPU usage. In Process Explorer place
cursor on Process and select Properties, Image.


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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