PeterK wrote:
> I have the exact symptoms described in an msdn post 17 March 07
> http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/Sho...58958&SiteID=1
> to which there have been no replies. The posts says:
>
> My laptop is doing an incredible amount of disk I/O. Resource Monitor
> says that it's being done by PID #4, which is just "System". The file
> it is writing two has not only one, but two GUIDs in its name.
>
> What is my system doing? Better yet, how is the average user supposed
> to know what's really happening? How do I make sure it's not one of my
> own applications?
>
> .B ekiM
>
>
> Image PID File Read (B/min) Write (B/min) IO Priority
> Response Time (ms)
> System 4 C:\System Volume
> Information\{696b87ef-d44a-11db-b3de-0018f38316d3}{3808876b-c176-4e48-b7ae-04046e6cc752}
> 65526 48021691 Normal 24
>
> Can anyone point me at an explanation aand a cure?
>
> PeterK
Typical processes that thrash the hard drive are:

1. Prefetch
2. Defrag
3. Indexing
4. Virus programs for some time after boot up.

I found that for some time after eaach bootup, Prefetch caused a lot of
disk activity. You can stop those services by running services.msc and
selecting a service and changing it's Startup Type to "disabled".

Dave