Monitoring Disk Drive Usage

  • Thread starter Thread starter Steve Young
  • Start date Start date
S

Steve Young

I use Windows XP Professional and find that sometimes the system (ostensibly
on its own) takes off and does something with the disk drive for several
minutes ... grinding away doing I know not what. My question is: Is there a
way in XP to query the system to find out what process is currently using
the disk ... or other resources for that matter?

Thanks.
 
Steve Young said:
I use Windows XP Professional and find that sometimes the system (ostensibly
on its own) takes off and does something with the disk drive for several
minutes ... grinding away doing I know not what. My question is: Is there a
way in XP to query the system to find out what process is currently using
the disk ... or other resources for that matter?

Thanks.
Click to expand...

Open task manager. Click View> Select columns. Check I/O Read Bytes and I/O
Write Bytes.

--
D

I'm not an MVP a VIP nor do I have ESP.
I was just trying to help.
Please use your own best judgment before implementing any suggestions or
advice herein.
No warranty is expressed or implied.
Your mileage may vary.
See store for details. :)

Remove shoes to E-mail.
 
You can use task manager to view the processes running.
ctl, alt, del keys pressed all together will bring up a
dialog box with radio buttons for a number of choices
including task manager.
 
I use Windows XP Professional and find that sometimes the system (ostensibly
on its own) takes off and does something with the disk drive for several
minutes ... grinding away doing I know not what. My question is: Is there a
way in XP to query the system to find out what process is currently using
the disk ... or other resources for that matter?

Thanks.
Click to expand...

About every 3 days, PC Health will check the data collected in the prefetch
folders and optimize the placement of files belonging to the most often
used programs. This is similar to what a full run of defrag would do but
addresses only the files to be optimized instead of the entire drive.

Indexing service, if used, will cause occasional disk activity as well.
 
Back
Top