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Is there a utility that will show what the hard drive is doing on Windows?
There are times when the hard drive on my XP machine just goes nuts. This can happens sometimes for several minutes. When its doing this nothing seems to work or works very slowly. Virus scans (paid versions) dont find anything. Defrag and cleanup say things are fine. Drive is only 50% filled. I have got task manager up and when its doing this there is no network activity and very little to no CPU time. No applications shown running. No unusual processes that I can tell.
Another thing I notice from time to time, not sure if its this machine or another one but when I get the windows log in screen it shows the user name and says 1 program running. As soon as I log into that profile there is noting running and nothing showing in task manager. Not sure if this is a problem or related to the drive activity or not.
Is there some utility that can tell me what its so busy doing? Currently all my machines are XP.
2 Answers
- 1 decade ago
not to my knowledge.but you might try opening up your computer.and getting some low air pressure and blow the dust out from around your hard drive and fan. i have found this helps a lot.do not use real high air pressure.you can buy a can of the air at wal mart.wish i could help more
- 1 decade ago
Your oS seems buged up. Try Rloading it. There nothing like a fresh start rather than just tempoarily fixing a problem
