On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 20:16:12 +0100, John Latter
<jorolat.DeleteThis@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>In Windows Task Manager an instance of svchost.exe (with a PID number
>of 972) is continuously accessing my hard drive at a frequency of just
>under once per second.
>
>With the help I got on a related post I've used tasklist.exe to
>establish that svchost.exe (PID 972) has the following components:
>
>AudioSrv, BITS, Browser, CryptSvc, Dhcp,
>ERSvc, EventSystem, helpsvc, lanmanserver,
>lanmanworkstation, Netman, Nla, RasMan,
>Schedule, seclogon, SENS, SharedAccess,
>ShellHWDetection, srservice, TapiSrv,
>Themes, TrkWks, W32Time, winmgmt, wscsvc,
>wuauserv, WZCSVC
>
>Bearing in mind I'm a novice what I would like to do (subject to
>advice!) is disable each service one by one in an attempt to narrow
>down the source of the problem?
>
>Would this be a realistic way to go about the problem? If so what
>would be the best way to do it & would I need to reboot each time I
>disable a service?
>
>Hope you can help =)

This would account for some of the 'anomalies' associated with the
problem:

"I/O doesn't necessarily refer to your hard drive. Input and output of
data are also part of the normal functioning of your modem, which
would be my guess at the cause of the numbers you are watching."

Hope to have time to look into it further at the weekend.

--

John Latter

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