Personally, I disable deframgenting when idle, format my drives with 64K clusters lose a bit of space but pickup loads of disk speed , and defrag via bat file on startup. Viruses have been on the increase. I will still however need a single Windows dedicated machine for certain software.
I, too, wonder if this is taking up disk space which seems to be decreasing as time goes by and I do not add downloads or new programs. There are no bad side effects. It has hundreds of entries where snippit is opened and closed. I do use it on my computer and have months ago on hers.
Is it likely that there is some sort of key logging or similar spy process going on? I had a similar problem. It was infuriating. I searched the intertubes and came across this thread. I did fix my problem though. It turns out my outlook. I found out from Microsoft that you may experience issues with.
Well, mine was over 19Gig! I closed down Outlook. I then launched Outlook and it rebuilt the outlook. My new outlook. Better yet, no more hard drive thrashing. My harddrive will start thrashing, and the screen goes blank. I can hear the processor cooling fan kick into high speed. This doesnt happen very often but it will do it at an idle or when im working. I am running xp with sp3. This is an Italian NG. Best regards. It's particularly bad. Where are your swap file and Temporary Internet files C: or D:?
How much RAM does the system have? I don't have Norton installed on my system, and. What does process explorer - or the Processes tab in task manager click twice on the CPU column heading say is using the majority of processor time when this happens? Thanks - much useful stuff there; I don't think I learnt anything new, but it's a useful collection all in one place well, 7 places.
The solution is simple, identify and stop the process that is killing your drive. There are two methods and tools that you can use to identify the process.
Once you have identified the bad process, you can kill it in Task Manager. Method 1 Click on the Start Button and key in perfmon. Again, this should enable you to see what's thrashing the hard drive. However, the most helpful utility for tackling this kind of problem is, in my experience, AnVir Task Manager Free. This replaces both Microsoft's System Configuration Utility — you can use it to remove startup programs and any unwanted services — and Windows Task Manager.
Its Processes tab already has columns for CPU and Disk Load, so you just have to click the Disk Load heading to see all the programs that are using the hard drive sorted to the top of the page. This pops up a yellow note that tells you all about it assuming it knows , including the process that hosts other services svchost.
It provides all kinds of information including when the program was first detected installed on your PC, and when it was run. This means you can tell whether the program started up with your PC in the example above, AnVir started when I rebooted XP on 28 February or was run later. It's very useful if you're trying to find something that's behaving badly or should not be there at all. Task Manager Free looks things up on AnVir's website, so you may not get the full range of up-to-date info if your PC is offline.
They just want a simple answer to a simple question.
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