HD Activity Monitor

[K3]

Anyone know of a *free* Win9x utility to tell me which program/process is
either reading from or writing to the hard drive? A small, stand-alone EXE
that would log both the file(s) being updated and the program/process which
is updating the file(s) is preferred.

About every 15 seconds the HD led flashes once and I'd like to know what's
accessing the HD.

Just to let you know... I keep Norton AV updated and I update/run Ad-Aware,
Spybot S&D, and SpywareBlaster daily.

Thanks!

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Fort Fairfield, Maine USA
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[badgolferman]

About every 15 seconds the HD led flashes once and I'd like to know
what's accessing the HD.

I would guess your cable modem. Watch the activity light and the cable
modem light and see if they correspond.

 

[K3]

I would guess your cable modem. Watch the activity light and the
cable modem light and see if they correspond.

Probably is, but I'd like to be sure.

For about 2 years now, the "Data" light on the Toshiba cable modem has
flashed constantly (even when no UL/DL activity). Before that, it used to
flash only when sending/receiving data. Time-Warner Cable of Maine tells me
that's normal, but I recall some virus that was going around that affected
many cable-modem users. I know it's not that virus because I've since
installed a new HD and reinstalled Win98SE from scratch.

Thanks!

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Kendall F. Stratton III
Fort Fairfield, Maine USA
k3@(86_THE_SPAM)maine.rr.com
http://home.maine.rr.com/k3

"Support bacteria -- it's the only culture some people have!"

 

[Peter Boulton]

K3 wrote on 07/04/2005 16:56:

Anyone know of a *free* Win9x utility to tell me which program/process is
either reading from or writing to the hard drive? A small, stand-alone EXE
that would log both the file(s) being updated and the program/process which
is updating the file(s) is preferred.

About every 15 seconds the HD led flashes once and I'd like to know what's
accessing the HD.

Just to let you know... I keep Norton AV updated and I update/run Ad-Aware,
Spybot S&D, and SpywareBlaster daily.

Thanks!

Filemon is what you need:

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/filemon.shtml

Pete

 

[K3]

K3 wrote on 07/04/2005 16:56:

Filemon is what you need:

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/filemon.shtml

Pete

Thanks Pete. I already had Filemon, and you're right -- it's just what I
needed.

With all the stand-alone utilities/powertools that I've collected over the
years (over 1000 of them), I've got to find a better way to organize them.
Right now I've got them sorted into 27 folders (#, A, B, C, etc.). I'm
wondering how others here have organized all of their small, stand-alone
utilities?

Thanks again!

--
Kendall F. Stratton III
Fort Fairfield, Maine USA
k3@(86_THE_SPAM)maine.rr.com
http://home.maine.rr.com/k3

"Support bacteria -- it's the only culture some people have!"

 

[Phoenix]

<QUOTE>With all the stand-alone utilities/powertools that I've collected
over the
years (over 1000 of them), I've got to find a better way to organize them.
Right now I've got them sorted into 27 folders (#, A, B, C, etc.). I'm
wondering how others here have organized all of their small,
stand-aloneutilities?</QUOTE>

I've got mine in a little subdirectory TOOLS under the root of the
boot-partition.
I'd be very interested in a LIST of your stand-alone utilities <GRIN>to see
if I missed any</GRIN>

TIA

 

[K3]

<QUOTE>With all the stand-alone utilities/powertools that I've
collected over the
years (over 1000 of them), I've got to find a better way to organize
them. Right now I've got them sorted into 27 folders (#, A, B, C,
etc.). I'm wondering how others here have organized all of their
small, stand-aloneutilities?</QUOTE>

I've got mine in a little subdirectory TOOLS under the root of the
boot-partition.
I'd be very interested in a LIST of your stand-alone utilities
<GRIN>to see if I missed any</GRIN>

TIA

Here 'ya go:

Win32 --> http://home.maine.rr.com/k3/filelist.txt
DOS --> http://home.maine.rr.com/k3/filelst2.txt

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Kendall F. Stratton III
Fort Fairfield, Maine USA
k3@(86_THE_SPAM)maine.rr.com
http://home.maine.rr.com/k3

"Support bacteria -- it's the only culture some people have!"

 

[Phoenix]

Here 'ya go:

Win32 --> http://home.maine.rr.com/k3/filelist.txt
DOS --> http://home.maine.rr.com/k3/filelst2.txt

Thanks for that