How to find out disk activities by process

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Hi,
In WinXP, I am experiencing a lot of disk activities on the system. But,
yet, I am unable to determine what process is causing it.

In Task Manager, I am seeing little or no CPU or memory usage. However, in
performance monitor, I see a lot of disk usage.

I cannot think of anything on the system that can cause disk activities, as
I am not running any programs.

Is there a way I can find out what process is causing all the disk usage?

Thanks
 
You may be able to narrow down the disk activity issue to a startup
program...

We want to implement the Cleanboot process using MSCONFIG to rule out 3rd
party software as the cause of this issue. MSCONFIG from XP can also be used
on a Windows 2000 Pro or Server client.

Go to Start\Run type in Msconfig and press OK.
Go to the Startup tab.
Click on "Disable All"
Go to the Services Tab
Click on "Hide all Microsoft Services"
Uncheck the 3rd party services that are left
Press OK twice to reboot.

Once your computer is restarted see if the issue still occurs. if it still
does go to Msconfig and select Enable All on the startup tab.
If the issue does not occur go to the Startup tab and select items 4 at a
time or so with reboots in between to narrow down the exact item causing
your problem.

310353 How to Perform a Clean Boot in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=310353

Buz Brodin
MCSE NT4 / Win2K
Microsoft Enterprise Domain Support

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wl said:
Hi,
In WinXP, I am experiencing a lot of disk activities on the system. But,
yet, I am unable to determine what process is causing it.

In Task Manager, I am seeing little or no CPU or memory usage. However, in
performance monitor, I see a lot of disk usage.

I cannot think of anything on the system that can cause disk activities, as
I am not running any programs.

Is there a way I can find out what process is causing all the disk usage?

Thanks
Click to expand...

Open task manager, click view --> select columns, and check i/o read bytes, i/o
write bytes, and anything else you want to monitor. See which I/o bytes are
increasing the most.
 
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