something accessing my HD once per second

[Jan Philips]

Sometimes something accesses my HD once every second for long period
of time. Is there an easy way to find out what this is?

 

[John John - MVP]

Sometimes something accesses my HD once every second for long period
of time. Is there an easy way to find out what this is?

Easy is relative...

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/cports.html
CurrPorts: Monitoring TCP/IP network connections on Windows

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897437.aspx
TCPView for Windows

http://www.wireshark.org/
Wireshark · Go deep.

John

 

[Patrick Keenan]

Sometimes something accesses my HD once every second for long period
of time. Is there an easy way to find out what this is?

It is possible that it's the indexer, if you have Microsoft Search 4
installed.

 

[Jan Philips]

It is possible that it's the indexer, if you have Microsoft Search 4
installed.

Indexing is off. AFAIK, I don't have search 4 installed.

(It isn't doing it right now, but it was yesterday.)

 

[Jan Philips]

Easy is relative...

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/cports.html
CurrPorts: Monitoring TCP/IP network connections on Windows

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897437.aspx
TCPView for Windows

http://www.wireshark.org/
Wireshark · Go deep.

TCPView showed things happening, but none of them were regular
once-a-second. I ran CurrPorts, and I didn't know what to look for,
but then the HD accesses stopped again.

 

[John John - MVP]

TCPView showed things happening, but none of them were regular
once-a-second. I ran CurrPorts, and I didn't know what to look for,
but then the HD accesses stopped again.

Sorry, the above are for network activity, try this instead:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx
Process Monitor

John