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How can I tell what files windows xp is currently accessing/writing?

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BD2003

Lifer
There is a problem on my machine which is driving me insane. There is always a small amount of disk activity going on on my system. It appears to be writing to the C: partition. But unless I can figure out exactly what file is being written, I have no way of being able to diagnose exactly what is causing it. The constant clicking is so irritating, its like someone constantly tapping on your shoulder. I need to make it stop!
 
I downloaded filemon and diskmon. When the culprit activty is going on, diskmon is showing small writes, but filemon shows nothing. Its writing something, but its not writing to a file. Diskmon gives me absolutely zero information as to what is actually writing, only where it is being written in terms of sectors.

WTF?
 
Pagefile access souldn't be consistant unless there were other issues. Are you seeing any process spike CPU usage during the writes?
 
Go to task manager.
Under "Processes", click on "View/Select Column".
Select "I/O Read Bytes" and "I/O Write Bytes".
Click OK.

Now, you can see which process is accessing the hard drive.
 
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