Hard drive access excessive at times

garytechforum · 06-18-2008, 09:51 AM

I am having trouble with some program accessing my HDD continually and to the exclusion of my other programs for up to 20 minutes at times. The computer will freeze, although not completely because the mouse cursor will still move, but the screen is frozen and the hard drive is running constantly. It seems to be associated with either Outlook or World of Warcraft. Probably World of Warcraft. Then again sometimes I think it is some kind of an indexing utility built into Windows. I'm really just guessing, except that it often happens when playing WoW. But has happened when I open Outlook.

What I would like to find is a program that would create a log of the programs that access the hard drive so I could identify the offending program.

Does such software exist? And if it does, where do I get a copy?

**tecknomage** · 06-18-2008, 09:59 AM

With nothing running, in Explorer, right-click your drive, select Properties, see if you have Allow Indexing enabled (checked). Disable it (uncheck), and wait until the operation completes.

06-18-2008, 09:51 AM	#1 (permalink)
garytechforum Registered User Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 1 OS: XP	Hard drive access excessive at times I am having trouble with some program accessing my HDD continually and to the exclusion of my other programs for up to 20 minutes at times. The computer will freeze, although not completely because the mouse cursor will still move, but the screen is frozen and the hard drive is running constantly. It seems to be associated with either Outlook or World of Warcraft. Probably World of Warcraft. Then again sometimes I think it is some kind of an indexing utility built into Windows. I'm really just guessing, except that it often happens when playing WoW. But has happened when I open Outlook. What I would like to find is a program that would create a log of the programs that access the hard drive so I could identify the offending program. Does such software exist? And if it does, where do I get a copy?

06-18-2008, 09:59 AM	#2 (permalink)
tecknomage TSF Enthusiast Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: San Diego, CA Posts: 928 OS: WinXP Pro SP3	Re: Hard drive access excessive at times With nothing running, in Explorer, right-click your drive, select Properties, see if you have Allow Indexing enabled (checked). Disable it (uncheck), and wait until the operation completes. __________________ Tecknomage Computer System Specialist IT Technician