How can I figure out what process is constantly accessing my hard drive in Windows XP?
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I am running a fresh install of Windows XP SP3 with a very minimal set of applications installed, but even so, my computer often bogs down to a crawl while it is furiously accessing the hard drive, lighting the disk activity light solid for a minute or more. The problem is the worst directly after …
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With task manager you can view which processes are doing the most I/O. Go to the View menu -> Select Columns... Tick off I/O Read Bytes and I/O Write Bytes These should help you identify the offending process.
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