Thrashing on Paging File

[lee]

HELP!!!!!

My system is driving me crazy!!!

Everything will be working fine for a while then, my system hard drive
justs gets pounded.

Using hard disk monitoring software I see MILLIONS (yes MILLIONS) of
read/writes being done to:

c:\Drive Information\NTFsLdf.dat

I think this is the paging file (not sure). Most often occurs when I am
in Internet Explorer but, also happens in Visual Foxpro, Outlook
Express, etc.

System wil "come back" after a few minutes. Viewing task manager shows
millions of read/writes for whatever program I happen to be running at
the time.

It can happen at any time. Right after a re-boot or an hour later.
Sometimes occurs multiple times in a row. Other times may be good for a
few hours.

I'm stumped. Any Ideas?

Lee Richards

 

[Doug Kanter]

How much RAM? How big's the hard disk and how much space is free?

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

1. Go to Start > Run and type: SERVICES.MSC , and hit enter.
2. Scroll down to "Indexing Service".
3. Right-click on this service and select "Stop"

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| HELP!!!!!
|
| My system is driving me crazy!!!
|
| Everything will be working fine for a while then, my system hard drive
| justs gets pounded.
|
| Using hard disk monitoring software I see MILLIONS (yes MILLIONS) of
| read/writes being done to:
|
| c:\Drive Information\NTFsLdf.dat
|
| I think this is the paging file (not sure). Most often occurs when I am
| in Internet Explorer but, also happens in Visual Foxpro, Outlook
| Express, etc.
|
| System wil "come back" after a few minutes. Viewing task manager shows
| millions of read/writes for whatever program I happen to be running at
| the time.
|
| It can happen at any time. Right after a re-boot or an hour later.
| Sometimes occurs multiple times in a row. Other times may be good for a
| few hours.
|
| I'm stumped. Any Ideas?
|
| Lee Richards

 

[lee]

1 gig RAM
50 gig hard drive
30 gig free

 

[lee]

Already have indexing service disabled

 

[lee]

Already have indexing service disabled