Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk'
Saturday, November 27, 2004 at 9:19 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Peter Ritchie
(2 messages posted)
I have a comment about Stop
Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk:
After a bit of research into the same problem I've been having for quite some time,
with not much success disabled indexing, etc.:
After a bit of monitoring I noticed that Windows Management Instrumentation was writing
to a log file several times a second (C:\WINDOWS\system32\wbem\Logs\wbemess.log but
wmiprov.log also seemed to get less frequent access).
After reading the MS KB article on disabling this logging (Logging
WMI Activity), disabling this logging seemed to improve the trashing. If anyone
has any comments on why error entries would be getting logged this frequently, please
post.
My monitoring also showed that subst'ed (Subst)
directories seem to get frequent access as well. I deleted my subst entries (subst
/d...) to get further improvements.
I have noticed that the drive light does flicker dispite both FILEMON and DRIVEMON
not registering any activity.
I've also observed (as have others in this thread) the following process with constant
I/O (as displayed in TaskMan):
svchost.exe
explorer.exe
csrss.exe
System
with svchost.exe the hands-down winner of the most number of bytes read and/or written.
Regards -- Peter
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