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re: Fix disk-thrashing probs
Friday, December 10, 2004 at 7:13 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Andy
(1 messages posted)
Absolutely agree. I tried everything that everyone had posted on this thread (many
thanks to all) to no effect. Filemon (you did mean filemon, didn't you?) soon pointed
the finger at Norton Internet Security, so I bit the bullet and uninstalled it: I
was hacked off with them anyway because suddenly they don't support 2003, after I'd
extended my subscription.
I switched to the Windows Firewall and installed the avast! Virus Scanner. Bliss.
Yes, my hard drive still seems overactive but if I leave the machine for a few seconds,
the disk shuts down and stays shut down until I do something else.
Again thanks to all for posting here. It was the only source of information I could
find on the Web. And no thanks to Microsoft, Sony and Symantec, who all merely passed
the buck.
On Monday, July 19, 2004 at 6:54 am, Joe wrote:
>Not sure if you guys have found a slution to your disk thrashing issues. But here
>is what I would recommend:
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>1. go to www.sysinternals.com and download their diskmon utility (it is free!).
it
>lets you monitor what is going on your disk at any point.
>
>2. As soon as the thrashing starts press ctrl+E and you can create a log as to what
>is causing the problems. Then perhaps you can work past it.
>
>The sysinternals site is a choc full of goodies like processmonitor, cpu monitor..so
>for the ultrageeks among you can see what is the root cause of the problem. It is
>a must have utility if you are windows user.
>
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- Fix disk-thrashing probs (Joe: Monday, July 19, 2004 at 6:54 am)
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