Disk activity monitor?

Inquisitor · 14 Sep 2008 at 15:09

Does anyone know of a decent (free) program that can do this? I'm getting spikes of disk activity which are slowing the entire computer down and I'd like to know what's causing them.

Amnesia · 14 Sep 2008 at 15:18

try a process monitor

google will find u a free decent one

Burnsy2023 · 14 Sep 2008 at 15:31

Download the sysinternal suite of tools from MS. They're awesome. Processmon and diskmon will do what you want

Sarduk · 14 Sep 2008 at 15:37

There's one in Vista

Inquisitor · 16 Sep 2008 at 09:01

Thanks, Process Monitor looks awesome

I sorted it in the end; the real problem wasn't that I couldn't find the processes that were thrashing the disk, but that I couldn't identify the services that were doing it. That's when I found the 'Go to service(s)' option in Task Manager

bledd · 16 Sep 2008 at 10:55

if it was indexing, then tweak the locations that it indexes (control panel)
if it was superfetch, just leave it to do, once it's finished it'll give you better performance overall