re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk' Friday, October 21, 2005 at 11:50 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Rob (1 messages posted) I'm thoroughly impressed with all the expertise and help that people have so freely given, thank you. I have the same problem as everyone else has been describing and have tried virtually everything that people have suggested, insofar as it applies to my Averatec with Windows XP. What is most curious and disconcerting, however, is that, after downloading filemon, often nothing would register when my disk was going ('thrashing', krk krk etc). Any hints as to why nothing is registering even though something is clearly accessing my harddrive? Thanks. On Saturday, June 11, 2005 at 9:58 am, Matt Deniston wrote: >I tried many of the actions recommended on this thread, all to no avail. I'm running >XP Home and have two external drives (Seagate 400GB and a Zip 250). Both were getting >accessed every couple of seconds. I wouldn't describe it as "thrashing," rather constant >access such that the drive is constantly spinning, even when the PC is left idle >for hours. > >Solution for me: log off all others users on my PC. I have a biometric fingerprint >reader that my family uses to quickly toggle between different users' desktops. By >in a large a nice feature of XP. Took me a while to figure it out, but as soon as >I log everyone else off but me, the constant disk access (on both drives) stops. Written in response to: re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk' (Matt Deniston: Saturday, June 11, 2005 at 9:58 am) Responses to this message: re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk' (Falcon: Saturday, October 22, 2005 at 5:34 am) All messages in this thread [show all] 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? 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(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) re: Synopsis of replies to this thread (Thomas An: Sat, Sep 13, 2008, 11:52 am) re: Synopsis of replies to this thread (PeterC: Sat, Nov 15, 2008, 4:00 pm) re: Synopsis of replies to this thread (Sullivac: Wed, Mar 18, 2009, 3:56 am) re: Synopsis of replies to this thread (Sullivac: Wed, Mar 18, 2009, 3:59 am) What if it’s CcmExec.exe? 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