random disruptive disk activity

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Bob

I'm not new to Windows, but I am to XP... after installing it I've noticed
that every once in a while the hard drive will start chugging away for no
reason in particular. I look at task manager, and nothing obvious is
consuming CPU cycles. I disabled the indexer. I want to know how I can find
out what is doing this to the hard drive (and often, locking everything up
in the process). I suspect it's the DotNet Framework's garbage collection
mechanism, but it must be really embedded in the OS for me not to see it as
a process. Or maybe it's the OS itself, I really don't know. Someone please
enlighten me. Whatever it is I need to know more about it for the sake of
more users that will be moving to XP shortly.

Oh. I have all the latest patches, service packs, no viruses, etc.

Thanks,
Bob
 
Could be System Restore taking a restore point, your AntiVirus doing a
scheduled scan, write caching.

Could also be scheduled tasks - have you checked Start / All Programs
/ Accessories / System Tools / Scheduled Tasks?

John Allen
 
when windows sees your not doing anything after awhile it
indexs itself for 10 minutes or so and can also start
indexing when you are doing something. no worrys unless you
notice your web connection is busy sending out info of some
sort like mad....
 
No antivirus (at the moment), no scheduled tasks. I just deep-sixed system
restore, I'll wait and see if that was the problem.

Bob
 
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