What's Happenin'?

[mike carrington]

I run XP and have SP 1 and 2 and am up to date. Sometimes, I'll sit in
front of my screen reading and I can hear my hard disk just working it's
little heart out for long periods of time. I haven't executed anything for
it to be working and attempting Crtl-Alt-Del doesn't show me anything of
note - I try to follow the CPU usage in "Processes" and it doesn't tell me
anything. Looking at "Applications" simply shows me the one program - IE,
or whatever - I'm running and which is just sitting there. I am the sole
user on this machine so it's no other user. I run Norton, Spy Sweeper and
Window Washer, so there are no viruses or nasties running - I don't think.

How can I find out what program is causing all the activity?

Mike

 

[Galen]

In mike carrington <[email protected]> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

I run XP and have SP 1 and 2 and am up to date. Sometimes, I'll sit
in front of my screen reading and I can hear my hard disk just
working it's little heart out for long periods of time. I haven't
executed anything for it to be working and attempting Crtl-Alt-Del
doesn't show me anything of note - I try to follow the CPU usage in
"Processes" and it doesn't tell me anything. Looking at
"Applications" simply shows me the one program - IE, or whatever -
I'm running and which is just sitting there. I am the sole user on
this machine so it's no other user. I run Norton, Spy Sweeper and
Window Washer, so there are no viruses or nasties running - I don't
think.
How can I find out what program is causing all the activity?

Mike

Indexing service? A desktop search client? A scheduled scan? Perhaps one of
those.

Sysinternals Freeware - Process Explorer:
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/ProcessExplorer.html

That might give you some insight.

Galen
--

"But there are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world
without them."

Sherlock Holmes

 

[Guest]

See if the indexing service is running, if it is stop it and see if that
helps..
Open computer management , services and apps, indexing service, right click,
stop..

j;-)