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Title: Computer Help
Post by: Midnight on August 10, 2006, 12:20:51 PM

Can anyone recommend a program or utility that can identify what a computer is doing, or what program is causing disk activity?

I have a laptop that is running no applicaitons (from what the task manager indicates) yet the hard disk is continouslly active and churning away.

NAV is installed and I did a full system scan. No viruses detected, so I have no idea what program would need to be accessing the HD non-stop.

WinXP Pro operating system.

Title: Computer Help
Post by: Furious on August 10, 2006, 12:23:15 PM

Process Explorer (http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/ProcessExplorer.html)

Title: Computer Help
Post by: Donzo on August 10, 2006, 12:45:07 PM

Task manager.

Ctrl-ALt-Del > Task Manager
or
right-click on your taskbar and select Task Manager from the menu.

Title: Computer Help
Post by: Masherbrum on August 10, 2006, 01:00:05 PM

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Originally posted by Donzo
Task manager.

Ctrl-ALt-Del > Task Manager
or
right-click on your taskbar and select Task Manager from the menu.

He already knows about Task Manager.  

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Originally posted by Midnight
laptop that is running no applicaitons (from what the task manager indicates)

Another good program to use is this:  TaskList (http://www.answersthatwork.com/Tasklist_pages/tasklist.htm )

Title: Computer Help
Post by: Midnight on August 10, 2006, 01:00:22 PM

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Originally posted by Furious
Process Explorer (http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/ProcessExplorer.html)

Thanks

Title: Computer Help
Post by: xrtoronto on August 10, 2006, 01:04:38 PM

contol/alt/delete will bring up Task Manager.

goto "processes" tab and it will tell you what is running and how much cpu the process is using (see below)

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