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re: Office XP disk activity
Friday, August 17, 2001 at 2:31 pm
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by David Keith Hanley
(2 messages posted)
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.
- Written in response to:
- Office XP disk activity (Michael Mitchell: Thursday, August 16, 2001 at 9:36 am)
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