From: "Geo." 

google for diskmon, that'll show you exactly what's doing the disk io. I
used it the other day to find out that vista was updating sports stuff that
I didn't even knew existed (media center scheduled job).

Geo.

"Dave Ings"  wrote in message
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> IT gave me a new XP laptop this week, and due to time pressure I've not
> wiped it and scratch reinstalled as has been my custom. So I"m not 100%
> sure exactly what's on it.
>
> There is some process doing disk I/O every 5-10 seconds even when the
> machine is idle. First time I've seen this on XP, and it's driving me
> nuts. What's the best/easiest tool to identify the process doing the I/O?
> I tried adding I/O Reads to the Task Manager, but that doesn't seem
> detailed enough to identify the offender.
>
> Thanks for any tips.
> --
> Regards,
> Dave Ings,
> Toronto, Canada
>

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