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What's making my disk thrash in Windows XP?
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I have a sick Windows XP laptop; something's making the disk thrash and the entire system is sluggish to unresponsive a few minutes after boot. How do I figure out what is making the disk thrash? Task Manager is fine for finding what's using the CPU or memory, but doesn't show disk I/O. Details: ru…
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Download Process Explorer from Microsoft / Sysinternals. Run it and click view > Select columns. Click on the Process Performance Tab, and select "I/O Reads" and "I/O Writes". You can do this from Task manager, but I prefer using Process Explorer. Y…
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