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Tool which finds which process is causing the heavy hard drive activity?

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Mar 15, 202649323 views
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Sometimes my Windows 7 system is accessing the hard drive heavily for several minutes and it slows down the machine considerably. Is there a tool which tells me which process is causing it? That includes if Windows is accessing the virtual memory? I tried SysInternals' DiskMon but it doesn't show u…

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Resource Monitor can do this and is built into Windows 7. You can access it from a button in Task Manager's Performance tab. Once you open Resource Monitor, expand the Disk Utilization drop-down. It will show you what processes are accessing the dis…

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