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From: John John - MVP on 6 Mar 2010 21:10
Jan Philips wrote:
> On Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:24:21 -0400, John John - MVP
> <audetweld(a)nbnot.nb.ca> wrote:
>
>> Jan Philips wrote:
>>> Sometimes something accesses my HD once every second for long period
>>> of time. Is there an easy way to find out what this is?
>> Easy is relative...
>>
>> http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/cports.html
>> CurrPorts: Monitoring TCP/IP network connections on Windows
>>
>> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897437.aspx
>> TCPView for Windows
>>
>> http://www.wireshark.org/
>> Wireshark � Go deep.
>
> TCPView showed things happening, but none of them were regular
> once-a-second. I ran CurrPorts, and I didn't know what to look for,
> but then the HD accesses stopped again.

Sorry, the above are for network activity, try this instead:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx
Process Monitor

John
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