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Office XP disk activity
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Office XP disk activity
Thursday, August 16, 2001 at 9:36 am
Posted by Michael Mitchell
(1 messages posted)
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
Friday, August 17, 2001 at 2:31 pm
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.
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re: Office XP disk activity
Monday, October 8, 2001 at 6:16 am
Posted by Bruce Harrison
(1 messages posted)
MOSEARCH has caused a more serious problem to my system that has been quite difficult
and time consuming to isolate ,WIN ME, Office XP (just upgraded to Office XP)
After a suspend to RAM event , on the next reboot about the enter password phase
Blue screen error message 0E:0028:00000008 (or 00000004) press any key and 1 of 2
things will happen you will continue to boot normally or go directly into annother
blue screen
VMM(01)+000132CA ERROR:0D:0028C00142CA from which it will automatically reboot or
FREEZE and a hard Boot is required ,on that boot you will get annother error message
ERROR 0E:0187:BFF73F51
Most often scandisk will run (sometimes it will Freeze,reboot runs ok 2nd time round)
but after that the computer will run and reboot OK ,providing you do not have annother
STR /standby event (HD Fans everything shut down)
problem was isolated by disabling/enabling programs in SYSTEM Configuration Utility/Startup
,reboot ,let go into standby mode , wake ,reboot ,repeat to confirm,move onto next
program and repeat.
3 nights wasted Thanks Microsoft ,what is this program for anyhow ? (file said microsoft
office search service ? Big Brother again ?)
Yes I had the a speed disk problem as well
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re: Office XP disk activity
Sunday, December 2, 2001 at 9:19 am
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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re: Office XP disk activity
Tuesday, January 8, 2002 at 9:00 pm
Posted by jeffwillis
(1 messages posted)
win98se
compaq persario running amdk6 550mhz 383MB ram
2 physical disks 3 partitions 4gb, 2gb, 2gb
i have MSword 2k installed.
mosearch has been causing me problems for some time blue screens and sudden reboots
i didnt know it was even running (doesnt show up in the close prog dialog box.)
it caused an illegel operation tonight and i searched for it. i found it but windows
wont let you rename it.
i had to boot into safe mode to rename it.
for about 2 hrs now my comp has been humming right along w/no errors. it seems faster
and the disks are quieter. i havent tried to fire up word yet but i havent seen
any ill effects of disabling the prog.
On Monday, October 8, 2001 at 6:16 am, Bruce Harrison wrote:
>MOSEARCH has caused a more serious problem to my system that has been quite difficult
>and time consuming to isolate ,WIN ME, Office XP (just upgraded to Office XP)
>
>After a suspend to RAM event , on the next reboot about the enter password phase
>Blue screen error message 0E:0028:00000008 (or 00000004) press any key and 1 of
2
>things will happen you will continue to boot normally or go directly into annother
>blue screen
>VMM(01)+000132CA ERROR:0D:0028C00142CA from which it will automatically reboot
or
>FREEZE and a hard Boot is required ,on that boot you will get annother error message
>ERROR 0E:0187:BFF73F51
>
>Most often scandisk will run (sometimes it will Freeze,reboot runs ok 2nd time round)
>but after that the computer will run and reboot OK ,providing you do not have annother
>STR /standby event (HD Fans everything shut down)
>
>problem was isolated by disabling/enabling programs in SYSTEM Configuration Utility/Startup
>,reboot ,let go into standby mode , wake ,reboot ,repeat to confirm,move onto next
>program and repeat.
>
>3 nights wasted Thanks Microsoft ,what is this program for anyhow ? (file said microsoft
>office search service ? Big Brother again ?)
>Yes I had the a speed disk problem as well
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re: Office XP disk activity
Wednesday, January 16, 2002 at 2:56 pm
Posted by Kevin Shepherd
(1 messages posted)
>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
Thursday, February 7, 2002 at 6:45 pm
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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Solution: Office XP disk activity
Thursday, February 7, 2002 at 6:47 pm
Posted by Rakish Satsangi
(2 messages posted)
Here's where you'll find the answers:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q282106
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re: Office XP disk activity
Wednesday, July 3, 2002 at 11:59 pm
Posted by Alex Robertson
(1 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!
Open Word XP
File/Search
Disable Search in the box on the right
Exit
Voila!
Alex
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