How to find prog using disk?

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Brett

My hard drive light constantly flickers and cpu usage is stays between 10 -
20%. (somtimes lower) How can I find out which program is hogging disk
usage?

Thanks,
Brett
 
Punch ctrl-Alt-Delete, brings-up that information...If you typed this
question into the Search box on your browser, it would also provide
information, which is another way to use your PC.
 
task manager doesn't show this information.

Sandman said:
Punch ctrl-Alt-Delete, brings-up that information...If you typed this
question into the Search box on your browser, it would also provide
information, which is another way to use your PC.
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Brett said:
task manager doesn't show this information.
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Task Manager may show the "culprit"; you may just not know what you are
looking at. The item causing your usage may be running as a service or
may be hidden malware. The normal troubleshooting path for this sort of
problem is:

1. Check and see if the Indexing Service is enabled. If it is, disable
it and see if that solves the issue. If it does, case closed.

2. Scan with a current version antivirus (not earlier than 2004) using
updated definitions. Do all scans for malware in Safe Mode.

3. Scan for non-viral malware, starting with free programs like Ad-aware
and Spybot Search & Destroy. Install those programs, update them, and
scan with each program (not simultaneously!) in Safe Mode.

4. After you have ensured that the computer is 100% malware-free, if the
problem persists do clean-boot troubleshooting:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=310353

Malke
 
Nice. Thanks.

Torgeir Bakken (MVP) said:
Hi

Yes, if you under the Process tab do the following.

In the menu, select View/Select Columns...

There you select I/O Reads, I/O Reads Bytes, I/O Write and
I/O Write Bytes.


You also use Filemon from Sysinternals that does a real time logging
of file accesses:

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



--
torgeir, Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of
the 1328 page Scripting Guide:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/default.mspx
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Brett said:
Nice. Thanks.
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Brett

If you want to check out each of the processes to see who they belong
to, go to this site and type in the process name in the search field.
http://www.liutilities.com/products/wintaskspro/processlibrary/pccpfw/
This will help you to identify which processes are legit and which are
not, just remember that some file names may look similar but aren't as
the people who design Spyware or trojans will mimic the actual names as
closely as they can, a good example is lsass.exe, this is an important
part of the OS, so read the path files of the processes to find out
where they lead.

Luck
 
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