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re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk'
Tuesday, June 4, 2002 at 7:32 pm
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Posted by Greg Zeng (33 messages posted)

>I have XP Pro and I have done the steps on this page, however the hard drive light
>still blanks wildly. How can I stop this? It really degrades my performance, not
>to mention that it's really annoying! Please help! After reading the other replies, try turning on WINDOWS TASK MANAGER (right click near the date-time icon, Task Bar). Click the PROCESSES TAB, click the VIEW drop-down menu, SELECT COLUMNS, CPU TIME. Click or double-click on the CPU TIME tab. Then you can see which application is using your CPU time the most. I found not just the Indexing part, but sometimes it is an anti-virus program, or a Defrag program. Sometimes you may have unknowingly downloaded a "fix-it" type of program that hunts for viruses, worms, or unnecessary windows (temp, etc) files.

Written in response to:: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk' (Luc: Thursday, April 4, 2002 at 11:13 am)

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re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk' (Dale Wisely: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 at 10:18 pm)

re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk' (lars: Sunday, January 12, 2003 at 11:06 am)

re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk' (rahul: Friday, May 26, 2006 at 2:31 am)

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Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk' (Luc: Thu, Apr 4, 2002, 11:13 am)

re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk' (Stetson: Thu, Apr 4, 2002, 11:32 am)

re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk' (Luc: Thu, Apr 4, 2002, 12:17 pm)

re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk' (Mike: Thu, Apr 4, 2002, 12:38 pm)

re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk' (Luc: Thu, Apr 4, 2002, 1:07 pm)

re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk' (John: Sun, Sep 8, 2002, 8:26 pm)

re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk' (winuser: Sun, Feb 27, 2005, 9:32 pm)

re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk' (richie rich: Wed, Apr 6, 2005, 3:05 pm)

re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk' (Matt Deniston: Sat, Jun 11, 2005, 9:58 am)

re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk' (Rob: Fri, Oct 21, 2005, 11:50 pm)

re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk' (Falcon: Sat, Oct 22, 2005, 5:34 am)

re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk' (DudyKaPuty: Wed, Feb 1, 2006, 5:25 am)

re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk' (Charlie: Mon, Feb 6, 2006, 12:33 pm)

re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk' (David: Wed, Mar 1, 2006, 12:54 am)

re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk' (Cam: Tue, Nov 23, 2004, 3:48 am)

re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk' (salmon: Sat, Jan 4, 2003, 7:22 am)

re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk' (HC: Thu, Apr 4, 2002, 1:31 pm)

re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk' (Luc: Thu, Apr 4, 2002, 5:18 pm)

re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk' - Solution yet? (Gonz: Wed, Sep 4, 2002, 7:23 am)

re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk' - Solution yet? (terry: Fri, Jun 13, 2003, 9:21 am)

re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk' - Solution yet? (thomas covenant: Sat, Sep 13, 2003, 12:58 pm)

re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk' - Solution yet? (ROBIN: Sun, Oct 5, 2003, 11:42 am)

re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk' (Greg Zeng: Tue, Jun 4, 2002, 7:32 pm)

re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk' (Dale Wisely: Wed, Nov 20, 2002, 10:18 pm)

re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk' (Keith: Fri, Sep 5, 2003, 6:13 am)

re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk' (Paul: Thu, Oct 7, 2004, 6:39 pm)

re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk' (lars: Sun, Jan 12, 2003, 11:06 am)

Summary of steps taken for 'Wildly Access Hard Drive' (HAIvey: Mon, Jan 13, 2003, 1:12 am)

re: Summary of steps taken for 'Wildly Access Hard Drive' (Lars: Mon, Jan 13, 2003, 7:14 am)

re: Summary of steps taken for 'Wildly Access Hard Drive' (Lars: Tue, Jan 14, 2003, 6:10 pm)

re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk' (rahul: Fri, May 26, 2006, 2:31 am)

re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk' (Mike Williams: Sat, Apr 14, 2007, 7:59 pm)

re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk' (Gaz: Tue, Sep 17, 2002, 5:02 pm)

re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk' (Garth Wood: Thu, Dec 19, 2002, 8:14 am)

re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk' (Gaz: Mon, Feb 10, 2003, 6:38 pm)

re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk' (Gennadiy: Mon, Dec 23, 2002, 2:39 am)

re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk' (Chris: Tue, May 6, 2003, 3:45 am)

re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk' (RK: Wed, Jun 4, 2003, 3:31 am)

re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk' (dale: Tue, Jun 10, 2003, 6:01 pm)

re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk' (Andy Maynard: Sun, Jun 22, 2003, 1:27 pm)

re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk' (cb: Tue, Jul 15, 2003, 8:15 pm)

re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk' (RickFM: Wed, Jul 16, 2003, 2:56 am)

re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk' (Eichinger: Wed, Aug 27, 2003, 7:38 pm)

re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk' (Simon: Wed, Oct 1, 2003, 11:23 pm)

Constant disk access problem: more on the IBM case (Simon Lacoste-Julien: Sun, May 30, 2004, 7:08 am)

re: Constant disk access problem: more on the IBM case (Friedemann: Fri, May 25, 2007, 8:20 am)

re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk' (Telmo Amaral: Tue, Feb 15, 2005, 4:01 pm)

re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk' (Henrique Seganfredo: Wed, Oct 22, 2003, 4:15 pm)

An answer from Seagate! (Marfan: Sat, Apr 10, 2004, 3:16 pm)

re: An answer from Seagate! (Fred: Thu, May 13, 2004, 7:27 pm)

re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk' (YoungBuk: Fri, Oct 3, 2003, 11:49 am)

re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk' (john: Sun, Oct 5, 2003, 7:33 am)

Thanks John (YoungBuk: Sun, Oct 5, 2003, 3:40 pm)

Fix disk-thrashing probs (Joe: Mon, Jul 19, 2004, 6:54 am)

re: Fix disk-thrashing probs (Ted: Tue, Nov 23, 2004, 2:53 am)

re: Fix disk-thrashing probs (Andy: Fri, Dec 10, 2004, 7:13 am)

re: Fix disk-thrashing probs (Len Umina: Sat, Apr 21, 2007, 10:44 pm)

re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk' (Eichinger: Tue, Jan 6, 2004, 5:22 pm)

re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk' (Senthil: Sun, Feb 1, 2004, 7:48 am)

re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk' (Cam: Tue, Nov 23, 2004, 3:53 am)

Synopsis of replies to this thread (Sebastian Helm: Fri, Mar 3, 2006, 1:46 pm)

What if it’s CcmExec.exe? (Sebastian Helm: Fri, Mar 3, 2006, 3:38 pm)

re: What if it’s CcmExec.exe? (Sebastian Helm: Fri, Mar 3, 2006, 3:53 pm)

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