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re: Office XP disk activity
Thursday, February 7, 2002 at 6:45 pm
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Posted by Rakish Satsangi (2 messages posted)





On Wednesday, January 16, 2002 at 2:56 pm, Kevin Shepherd wrote:
>
>This sounds too good to be true. Is it really posible to silence those two 10k SCSI
>drives while the machine is idle? Great, but a search on the MS website retrieved
>'zero finds' on either MOSEARCH or MOSDMN. Give me a clue please!
>


>On Sunday, December 2, 2001 at 9:19 am, Mike wrote:
>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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re: Office XP disk activity (Kevin Shepherd: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 at 2:56 pm)

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All messages in this thread [show all]
-Office XP disk activity (Michael Mitchell: Thu, Aug 16, 2001, 9:36 am)
-re: Office XP disk activity (Mike: Sun, Dec 2, 2001, 9:19 am)
-re: Office XP disk activity (Kevin Shepherd: Wed, Jan 16, 2002, 2:56 pm)
*re: Office XP disk activity (Rakish Satsangi: Thu, Feb 7, 2002, 6:45 pm)
*Solution: Office XP disk activity (Rakish Satsangi: Thu, Feb 7, 2002, 6:47 pm)
*re: Office XP disk activity (Alex Robertson: Wed, Jul 3, 2002, 11:59 pm)
-re: Office XP disk activity (David Keith Hanley: Fri, Aug 17, 2001, 2:31 pm)
-re: Office XP disk activity (Bruce Harrison: Mon, Oct 8, 2001, 6:16 am)
*re: Office XP disk activity (jeffwillis: Tue, Jan 8, 2002, 9:00 pm)
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