What Services Access Disk Frequently ??

[Ken Stuart]

Hello,

I have a PC that I use only for running media players, so it only needs to use
the hard disk drive during boot/startup.

I then set the Power Management to spin down the drive after the minimum amount
of lack of use (3 minutes), but the drive spins back up every 30 or 60 minutes
(roughly - I've never timed it).

I still have the following services running:

Automatic Updates
Event Log
Network Connections
Plug And Play
RPC
Server
Windows Management Instrumentation
WMI Driver Extensions
Workstation

Which of these runs many times a day - but not continually ?

 

[Pennywise]

|>Hello,
|>
|>I have a PC that I use only for running media players, so it only needs to use
|>the hard disk drive during boot/startup.
|>
|>I then set the Power Management to spin down the drive after the minimum amount
|>of lack of use (3 minutes), but the drive spins back up every 30 or 60 minutes
|>(roughly - I've never timed it).
|>
|>I still have the following services running:
|>
|>Automatic Updates
|>Event Log
|>Network Connections
|>Plug And Play
|>RPC
|>Server
|>Windows Management Instrumentation
|>WMI Driver Extensions
|>Workstation
|>
|>Which of these runs many times a day - but not continually ?


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