From: "Robert Comer" 

If it's the diskmon that's on Microsoft Technet, how does that help you,
all it does is display when it's reading or writing, not what task is doing
it.

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Bob Comer





"Geo."  wrote in message news:45dcd3eb{at}w3.nls.net...
> 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
> news:45dc592d$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> 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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