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re: Office XP disk activity
Sunday, December 2, 2001 at 9:19 am
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Mike
(1 messages posted)
Thank you!!!!!!!! I've been going NUTS trying to find out the source of the disc
activity since my upgrade. Good Job!!!!!!!!!!!
On Thursday, August 16, 2001 at 9:36 am, Michael Mitchell wrote:
>After upgrading 2 machines to Office XP, I noticed a large amount
>of disk activity. I assumed it was due to a fragmented disk and attempted
>to use Norton Speed Disk to defragment my drive. However, it would never finish.
>Something was writing to the hard drive and wasn't showing up anywhere. A friend
>brought in
>a copy of PC Magazine that had a utility that would monitor your disk drive and
identify
>the last 12
>processes that accessed it. After installing and running it, I noticed that there
>were 2 main processes
>that constantly accessed the drive. They were Mosearch and Mosdmn. I used Windows
>explorer to
>see if I could find anything with those characters in the name of either a file
or
>folder. Low and behold, a folder by the
>name of Mosearch appeared. Inside the folder was a VBS file that said it was MicroSoft
>Office Search.
>I went to Microsoft's website and searched on Mosearch and found an article that
>described how to turn off
>the indexed search that was Mosearch. After turning off the routine, my drives have
>been quiet and I have
>been able to run Speed disk with no problems.
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- Office XP disk activity (Michael Mitchell: Thursday, August 16, 2001 at 9:36 am)
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