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| 23565 | 2001-11-04 05:09:00 | This is driving me nuts! When there has been no mouse or keyboard activity for about 1 minute, my hard drive starts chugging continuously. This can go on for half an hour or more. Running System Monitor shows that processor usage hits 100%at the same time! If nothing else, this must be prematurely wearing out my drive but I have a feeling that this is also interfering with the CD writing process as well, as I continually suffer from a buffer-underrun problem (but that?s another problem altogether). Can you help me find what is causing this? My system is as follows: PC Chips m/board model M741LMRT (integrated 8 Mb AGP graphics, sound, modem, LAN) Slot 1 PIII 550 CPU 3 x 128Mb SD133 RAM Seagate 20 Gb 5400rpm HD Acer 8x4x32 CDRW IDE Zip 100 drive Panasonic 52x CD ROM reader |
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| 23566 | 2001-11-04 05:32:00 | Do you have Nortom Systemworks or Norton Utilities? It sounds like Speed Disk is set to defrag your computer after 1 minutes idle. I would look for this, or other processes set to occur after a certain idle time and switch them off. |
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| 23567 | 2001-11-04 06:44:00 | ...other culprits may be Mcafee Screenscan or MS Indexing service.... | Guest (0) | ||
| 23568 | 2001-11-04 07:26:00 | Thanx, I don't have Norton or MacAffee. MSconfig tells me this lot starts at startup: CTFMON.exe ?;Taskmon.exe (Windows;PCCIOMON.EXE (Trend PCCillin AV)this seems to load twice;pop3trap.exe(Trend);WebTrap.exe(Trend); Hpppta(HP Scanner monitor); StillImageMonitor(Windows); Iomega Startup options and drive icons;Adaptec Createcd; Loadpowerprofile(Windows) (this also seems to load twice);MOSearch ?;MDM7 ?; Adobe Gamma Loader.exe; Cmmpu.exe(Windows); The ? indicates I have no idea what this is. There was a thing called ptsnoop.exe, but I killed it as it looked suspicious Autoexec.bat C:\PROGRA~1\TRENDP~1\PCSCAN.EXE C:\ C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\ /NS /WIN95 TaskManager shows the follwing running: Explorer;Ctfmon;Pop3Trap; Createcd;Webtrap;Imgicon; Stimon;Pcciomon;Mdm;Cmmpu Does anyone know anything about these? I don't have any automated tasks under Windows and all power management is off. |
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