What Service Causes Regular (Every Second) Disk Read/Writes

[Carl]

My Vista PC read and writes to the system drive C: every second the
entire time Vista is loaded. This didn't happen with XP. What is making
these regular disk reads and writes?

 

[Michael Solomon]

My Vista PC read and writes to the system drive C: every second the entire
time Vista is loaded. This didn't happen with XP. What is making these
regular disk reads and writes?

If this is a relatively new setup, it's likely the indexing function. In
time, this should reduce to the point where it is virtually non-existent or
you'll notice very little activity compared to what is going on now.

 

[Rock]

My Vista PC read and writes to the system drive C: every second the entire
time Vista is loaded. This didn't happen with XP. What is making these
regular disk reads and writes?

Open the Reliability and Performance Monitor to see what's going on. From
Start, type in the first few letters of Reliability. Click on it when it
pops up at the top left. It will need elevation. In the right pane expand
the Disk section to see what's accessing the disk.

 

[Carl]

The program doing the regular read is wfpdiag.etl. What the hell is that?

 

[mikeyhsd]

first entry of a GOOGLE search implies it is used with a VPN server.
might check the article out.
or search the ms knowledge base.



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The program doing the regular read is wfpdiag.etl. What the hell is that?

 

[Rock]

The program doing the regular read is wfpdiag.etl. What the hell is that?

Sorry I don't have a clue about that. It is part of the Vista installation,
though. I have not seen that one doing any writes or file access on my
system.

You might want to post this question to the
microsoft.public.windows.vista.security newsgroup to see if Jesper or Jimmuh
know about it.