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

 

"Jan Philips" <youknowwhat.mccranie@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> 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.




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On Sat, 6 Mar 2010 202:53 -0500, "Patrick Keenan" <test@dev.null>
wrote:

>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.)
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On Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:24:21 -0400, John John - MVP
<audetweld@nbnot.nb.ca> wrote:

>Jan Philips wrote:
>> 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.

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.
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Jan Philips wrote:
> On Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:24:21 -0400, John John - MVP
> <audetweld@nbnot.nb.ca> wrote:
>
>> Jan Philips wrote:
>>> 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.
>
> 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