Is There A Free Utility ...?
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That will monitor my PC and tell me what the hell it's doing when the hard drive suddenly leaps into a frenzy of activity, despite the fact that I haven't done a damned thing for ten minutes? All versions of Windows have done this, but each new generation seems to get worse. Given that indexing isn't enabled, what the heck is it doing?
Will Rogers never met me.
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That will monitor my PC and tell me what the hell it's doing when the hard drive suddenly leaps into a frenzy of activity, despite the fact that I haven't done a damned thing for ten minutes? All versions of Windows have done this, but each new generation seems to get worse. Given that indexing isn't enabled, what the heck is it doing?
Will Rogers never met me.
Sending your data to the NSA...
Quad skating his way through the world since the early 80's... Booger Mobile - My bright green 1964 Ford Falcon - check out the blog here!! | If you feel generous - make a donation to Camp Quality!!
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That will monitor my PC and tell me what the hell it's doing when the hard drive suddenly leaps into a frenzy of activity, despite the fact that I haven't done a damned thing for ten minutes? All versions of Windows have done this, but each new generation seems to get worse. Given that indexing isn't enabled, what the heck is it doing?
Will Rogers never met me.
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That will monitor my PC and tell me what the hell it's doing when the hard drive suddenly leaps into a frenzy of activity, despite the fact that I haven't done a damned thing for ten minutes? All versions of Windows have done this, but each new generation seems to get worse. Given that indexing isn't enabled, what the heck is it doing?
Will Rogers never met me.
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That will monitor my PC and tell me what the hell it's doing when the hard drive suddenly leaps into a frenzy of activity, despite the fact that I haven't done a damned thing for ten minutes? All versions of Windows have done this, but each new generation seems to get worse. Given that indexing isn't enabled, what the heck is it doing?
Will Rogers never met me.
There might be... but it would access the disk when you haven't done a darned thing for ten minutes.
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That will monitor my PC and tell me what the hell it's doing when the hard drive suddenly leaps into a frenzy of activity, despite the fact that I haven't done a damned thing for ten minutes? All versions of Windows have done this, but each new generation seems to get worse. Given that indexing isn't enabled, what the heck is it doing?
Will Rogers never met me.
Without knowing anything else about your system than what you mention here, it could be Windows Update kicking in. If you have Automatic Update set to "Automatic" or "Download updates, but let me choose when to install them", there is no setting to control at what time the download occurs. You just might be able to use BITSAdmin[^] with the "/Monitor /allusers" or "/List /allusers" command line switch to see if a BITS download is in progress. Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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That will monitor my PC and tell me what the hell it's doing when the hard drive suddenly leaps into a frenzy of activity, despite the fact that I haven't done a damned thing for ten minutes? All versions of Windows have done this, but each new generation seems to get worse. Given that indexing isn't enabled, what the heck is it doing?
Will Rogers never met me.
There are many utilities under Sysinternals: Some names are diskmon, portmon, objmon etc etc etc... Once upon a time, Sysinternals used to be a 3rd party; Now it is part of Microsoft offering and all of them are free. Great Utilities with Simple UI and if u can get past the initial learning curve, it will reveal your needle. If not, all they'll end up do is shift the Haystack you are looking. Another brute-forcish way to find out this is to shut down MS Services 1 by 1. It is claimed as "risky" by MS folks but if you keep proper track of what you are doing, it is not that risky. What is most amazing is that the service named "Remote Procedure Call" affects even simple things as Windows explorer and error messages that OS throws out are amusing to look at (i.e. if you are not hyper paranoid types). Whether it is something to with .NET Remoting or external data feeder can be detected by PortMon.
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That will monitor my PC and tell me what the hell it's doing when the hard drive suddenly leaps into a frenzy of activity, despite the fact that I haven't done a damned thing for ten minutes? All versions of Windows have done this, but each new generation seems to get worse. Given that indexing isn't enabled, what the heck is it doing?
Will Rogers never met me.
It does what it should do INDEXING!! :sigh:
is this a signature ?
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That will monitor my PC and tell me what the hell it's doing when the hard drive suddenly leaps into a frenzy of activity, despite the fact that I haven't done a damned thing for ten minutes? All versions of Windows have done this, but each new generation seems to get worse. Given that indexing isn't enabled, what the heck is it doing?
Will Rogers never met me.
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Sending your data to the NSA...
Quad skating his way through the world since the early 80's... Booger Mobile - My bright green 1964 Ford Falcon - check out the blog here!! | If you feel generous - make a donation to Camp Quality!!
Surely there's no need to do that? They've already got it! :confused:
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience
Greg King
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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
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There are many utilities under Sysinternals: Some names are diskmon, portmon, objmon etc etc etc... Once upon a time, Sysinternals used to be a 3rd party; Now it is part of Microsoft offering and all of them are free. Great Utilities with Simple UI and if u can get past the initial learning curve, it will reveal your needle. If not, all they'll end up do is shift the Haystack you are looking. Another brute-forcish way to find out this is to shut down MS Services 1 by 1. It is claimed as "risky" by MS folks but if you keep proper track of what you are doing, it is not that risky. What is most amazing is that the service named "Remote Procedure Call" affects even simple things as Windows explorer and error messages that OS throws out are amusing to look at (i.e. if you are not hyper paranoid types). Whether it is something to with .NET Remoting or external data feeder can be detected by PortMon.
ExcellentOrg wrote:
Some names are diskmon, portmon, objmon etc etc etc...
Pokemon??? :confused:
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience
Greg King
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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
Lily Tomlin, Actress -
It does what it should do INDEXING!! :sigh:
is this a signature ?
Indexing; feh.
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That will monitor my PC and tell me what the hell it's doing when the hard drive suddenly leaps into a frenzy of activity, despite the fact that I haven't done a damned thing for ten minutes? All versions of Windows have done this, but each new generation seems to get worse. Given that indexing isn't enabled, what the heck is it doing?
Will Rogers never met me.
Free utilities don't work. I've got a hard drive that goes dink.....dink.....dink dink....dink...dink dink dink.............................................dink......dink dink........... but all the free hard drive testing utilities say everything is just fine. Buncha liars.