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January 21st, 2004 13:00
Disk activity every one second
My Windows XP Pro system on OptiPlex GX400 has disk activity every second. The green light that shows when the hard drive is being used flashes about once per second, even when the system is basically sitting at idle and I am not doing anything.
Is there some component in XP that does this normally? I have MS Office installed, but I removed the shortcut in the Startup Folder.
Is there a way to monitor what is happening? The only thing I know to do in the way of monitoring is press Ctl-Alt-Delete to start the Windows Task Manager. That shows that EXPLORER.EXE is using 1% of the CPU.
I run Norton AntiVirus 2003, and I run the AdsGone popup blocker. I don't know if they are causing the constant disk usage.
I don't remember that the system did this in the "past". It seems like that at some time within the last few weeks this behavior started. Any assistance would be appreciated.
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jmwills
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January 21st, 2004 14:00
Record a list of all the processes running and compare them against a list at www.blackviper.com to see what each one is.
This sounds more like Network Activity (Requests) than anything else.
maxd
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January 21st, 2004 15:00
If you have a good firewall like Zone Alarm installed I suggest you do an AdAware scan. Free download if you don't have it.
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
creeper
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January 21st, 2004 18:00
Yet more on the blinking light odyssey-long read.
http://delltalk.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=dim_harddrive&message.id=58786&highlight=blinking+hdd+light#M58786
gryjhnhpe
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January 21st, 2004 19:00
Check Search "Indexing Service".
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Edit:
You can get a FREE programs that Monitors Disk Activity although it only shows Time & Read/Write Activity.
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/diskmon.shtml
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/utilities.shtml
Message Edited by gryjhnhpe on 01-22-2004 10:07 AM
snowcat
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January 26th, 2004 11:00
Creeper --
Thanks -- yes, the thread that you linked me to is exactly what is happening with my Dell. I will stop worrying about it now that I know that the hard disk is not being constantly used. The blinking light I can live with.
Snowcat