WhoDunIt: accessing Drive A:
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Ah, i'd forgotten about that bit of HP madness. Had me convinced of some bizarre virus 'till i tracked it down (and then disconnected the floppy drive). What, is HP running a retirement home for demented VB coders or something?
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Who said they retired?
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peterchen wrote:
sometimes in ca. 5 minute intervals,
got any HP printers on that PC ?
not anymore, but drivers/funny software may still be installed. Any details?
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not anymore, but drivers/funny software may still be installed. Any details?
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My first real C# project | Linkify!|FoldWithUs! | sighistMake sure the automatic updater and "share to web" shell extension crap is completely gone.
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We have a PC here that persistently accesses the Disk drive A: Behavior is persistent for almost a year, PC was replaced in the meantime but problem persists - so I suspect one of the applications running on it. I've ruled out the things obvious to me (searched registry for A:, virus scan). Any idea how to find the culprit? The pattern is not quite clear, sometimes it seems to coincide with (Windows) Explorer activity, sometimes in ca. 5 minute intervals, sometimes nothing. I already tried process explorer to hunt it down, but I couldn't catch it this way. Suggestions?
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My first real C# project | Linkify!|FoldWithUs! | sighistpeterchen wrote:
I already tried process explorer to hunt it down
Have you tried Procmon? Diskmon? Filemon? If not, try 'em. In that order.
every night, i kneel at the foot of my bed and thank the Great Overseeing Politicians for protecting my freedoms by reducing their number, as if they were deer in a state park. -- Chris Losinger, Online Poker Players?
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not anymore, but drivers/funny software may still be installed. Any details?
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My first real C# project | Linkify!|FoldWithUs! | sighistwhat Shog9 said. HP has some utilities that wake up every 5 minutes, do something, then disappear. i noticed them when i was playing games: their auto-update thing would spawn a top-level window, then immediately close it. that would send the game to the background and bring up the desktop.
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We have a PC here that persistently accesses the Disk drive A: Behavior is persistent for almost a year, PC was replaced in the meantime but problem persists - so I suspect one of the applications running on it. I've ruled out the things obvious to me (searched registry for A:, virus scan). Any idea how to find the culprit? The pattern is not quite clear, sometimes it seems to coincide with (Windows) Explorer activity, sometimes in ca. 5 minute intervals, sometimes nothing. I already tried process explorer to hunt it down, but I couldn't catch it this way. Suggestions?
We are a big screwed up dysfunctional psychotic happy family - some more screwed up, others more happy, but everybody's psychotic joint venture definition of CP
My first real C# project | Linkify!|FoldWithUs! | sighistTry checking your MRU lists. Not easy to get them all. You'll have to check the registry and data files, depending upon the application(s). Take a look at your "My Recent Documents" list. Same thing happened to me a couple of years ago. I found a path to a file on the A: drive in an MRU list, removed it, and the floppy drive ghost was exhorcised.
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We have a PC here that persistently accesses the Disk drive A: Behavior is persistent for almost a year, PC was replaced in the meantime but problem persists - so I suspect one of the applications running on it. I've ruled out the things obvious to me (searched registry for A:, virus scan). Any idea how to find the culprit? The pattern is not quite clear, sometimes it seems to coincide with (Windows) Explorer activity, sometimes in ca. 5 minute intervals, sometimes nothing. I already tried process explorer to hunt it down, but I couldn't catch it this way. Suggestions?
We are a big screwed up dysfunctional psychotic happy family - some more screwed up, others more happy, but everybody's psychotic joint venture definition of CP
My first real C# project | Linkify!|FoldWithUs! | sighistYou still have a Drive A? ;) Like others have mentioned the SysInternals drive monitor should help you.
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We have a PC here that persistently accesses the Disk drive A: Behavior is persistent for almost a year, PC was replaced in the meantime but problem persists - so I suspect one of the applications running on it. I've ruled out the things obvious to me (searched registry for A:, virus scan). Any idea how to find the culprit? The pattern is not quite clear, sometimes it seems to coincide with (Windows) Explorer activity, sometimes in ca. 5 minute intervals, sometimes nothing. I already tried process explorer to hunt it down, but I couldn't catch it this way. Suggestions?
We are a big screwed up dysfunctional psychotic happy family - some more screwed up, others more happy, but everybody's psychotic joint venture definition of CP
My first real C# project | Linkify!|FoldWithUs! | sighistNot a Compaq is it? My (Compaq) test rig won't go to sleep properly because it keeps flicking the A drive.
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We have a PC here that persistently accesses the Disk drive A: Behavior is persistent for almost a year, PC was replaced in the meantime but problem persists - so I suspect one of the applications running on it. I've ruled out the things obvious to me (searched registry for A:, virus scan). Any idea how to find the culprit? The pattern is not quite clear, sometimes it seems to coincide with (Windows) Explorer activity, sometimes in ca. 5 minute intervals, sometimes nothing. I already tried process explorer to hunt it down, but I couldn't catch it this way. Suggestions?
We are a big screwed up dysfunctional psychotic happy family - some more screwed up, others more happy, but everybody's psychotic joint venture definition of CP
My first real C# project | Linkify!|FoldWithUs! | sighistMaybe somebody shared Drive A in network with description "Interesting Films" 8)
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Maybe somebody shared Drive A in network with description "Interesting Films" 8)
Now THAT's an idea! :D
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