What's writing to my disk?

[algae]

I am running a new installation of Win XP on an Athlon XP system.Several times a day for about 10-15 minutes at a time there is a small amount of writing to the disk. It's barely enough to flicker the hd light and it's sort of rhythmic kind of like a ticking clock. Also, it's not enough to hiccup my pc when I'm playing Links Golf, which I play a lot.
I have all the default processed running in Win XP pro, along with Zone Alarm and NAV. This is just a minor thing but I'm curious.
Any ideas?
Thx
Gary

 

[crypticlogin]

When it writes to the disk, do any of the system processes have higher than usual CPU utilitization? Maybe you can pick out the culprit (virus or not) from that...

 

[Special K]

What about system restore? I would think it would have to periodically save info. about your current system configuration.

 

[bacillus]

yeah it's probably system restore at work!

 

[Poontos]

If it's the older Office suite (Office 97), you may have "Find Fast" in your startup. It's crap, so get rid of it, if you have it.

 

[agnitrate]

It could be your pagefile....

silver

 

[algae]

Thanks for the replies. I am using Office 2000 but have nuked all the bells and whistles from starting up relating to Office.
I checked the cpu useage under the processes tab and notice that my scanner software is the likely culprit because pops my cpu useage from 0% up to 2% and it seems to coincide with the disk activity.
Now what the heck would my scanner software be up to??? I am using Win 2000 drivers for my Umax scanner because Umax does not have any XP drivers out yet. Might that have something to do with it?
Tia
Gary