From: "Gregg N" 

Dave Ings wrote:
> 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.

First make sure it is not just the drive doing autonomous internal testing
(SMART). See if you hear the access even when sitting in the BIOS.

One other thing I ran into was a buggy Linksys wireless utilty that would
cause constant access if one of the statistics pages was selected.

Gregg

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