Busy hard drive

Pobby

Although I have disabled indexing, every so often my hard drive is busy, so much it freezes what else I am doing. Ideas please?

Samba_Pa_Ti

try process monitor > http://download.sysinternals.com/Files/ProcessMonitor.zip

beardiedog

Hi Pobby

A few suggestions.

Not enough memory, the hard drive needs defragging, virus checker working in the background.

phil11

Press Ctrl-Alt-Delete and from Task Manager select Processes.
Order by clicking on Memory Usage, this will show what is using up all your resources.

basmic

If you're running Vista, I believe it defragments when the machine is idle, or has low usage.

Might be best to let it get on with it for one night.

AirCooledHeaven

Pobby wrote: »

Although I have disabled indexing, every so often my hard drive is busy, so much it freezes what else I am doing. Ideas please?

What operating system are you using?

Strider590

Sounds like paging, do you have enough memory?

andy2004

More information required,
1. What Operating system, windows xp, me, vista, seven, 98, 95,
2. How much memory
3. How many processes running < CTRL + ALT + DEL bottom left corner processes:
also look for weird process names.
4. What antivirus
5. What antispyware.

FIXES,
1. download malwarebytes antispyware, install, update and run a quick scan, remove any spyware found. reboot. https://www.malwarebytes.org <this is freeware.

2. download hijackthis 2.02, create a log file and upload here.

3. CCleaner slim version http://www.ccleaner.com/download/builds Slim version does not contain yahoo toolbar.

4. http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm read gives you an idea of what services can be turned to manual instead of automatic.