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100% Disk Activity

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  1. 2015/04/01
    wjburl

    wjburl Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    One of the disks on my system has been showing 100% activity in the Task Manager for a couple of hours. How can I determine what is accessing this disk? Is is a data disk with on about 10% of the space used. I've rebooted and the problem continues.
     
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    Evan Omo

    Evan Omo Computer Support Technician Staff

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    Hi wjburl.

    Please download Autoruns. After you download the zipped folder on your desktop, right click the zipped folder and click Extract All. After the folder has been extracted open the regular folder. Run the autoruns.exe program by right clicking on it and selecting Run as administrator. When you open the program click the Logon Tab and then post a screenshot of all the startup entries in your next reply.
     
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    wjburl

    wjburl Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    Evan Omo, thanks for the tip. It turns out that I already had this program install. The disk activity has stopped. I used the Snipping tool to capture the info in Autorun, but when I tried to past it into the post, nothing happened. How do I post an image?
     
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    Evan Omo

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    Save the screenshot on your desktop as an image file. Then follow the instructions for posting attachments here, Attachments and Images.
     
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    wjburl

    wjburl Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    Evan Omo, I hope this post attaches my screen shot.
     

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    Evan Omo

    Evan Omo Computer Support Technician Staff

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    The screenshot works but it doesn't show all of the entries. Please create a new screenshot that shows all of the startup entries on the Logon tab, thanks.
     
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  8. 2015/04/02
    wjburl

    wjburl Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    Here is a capture of the rest of the entries not included in the previous post.
     

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  9. 2015/04/02
    Evan Omo

    Evan Omo Computer Support Technician Staff

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    In Autoruns remove the following items:

    All the items highlighted in yellow
    Adobe Updater Startup Utility
    Intellipoint
    Intellitype Pro
    ISCT Tray
    Logitech Download Assistant
    Nvidia Backend
    Realtek HD Audio Manager
    Nvidia Capture Server Proxy
    Cyberlink Media Library Service
    Double Twist
    Both Windows Mail entries
    Chronograph
    Music Manager
    Microsoft One Drive
    Photoshop Elements Organizer SyncAgent
    Transporter
    Content Safer Cleaner

    After that is done reboot the computer and let me know if the high disk usage is still occurring.
     
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  10. 2015/04/02
    wjburl

    wjburl Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    The high disk usage stopped shortly after I made the original post, so it would be difficult to tell. I had been going on for several hours prior to that. If it starts again, I'll remove the items you mentioned and see if it makes a difference.
     
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    Evan Omo

    Evan Omo Computer Support Technician Staff

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    Well you should remove those items in Autoruns anyway to help improve overall system performance.
     
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  12. 2015/04/03
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  13. 2015/04/03
    wjburl

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    Evan Omo, I've removed most of the items on your list. I depend on OneDrive and Transporter, so they are still checked. Neither should be using the disk giving me a problem. Transporter uses a remote drive on my LAN. It's like my private cloud system. I have four HDDs and one SSD internal drives on this system. The SSD is drive C:, drive D: is used for most of my data storage - Documents, etc. It's drive E: that gets busy on occasion and it's the only one that I've observed being with 100% activity. It seems to be busy for a couple of hours late in the morning. Since the data on that disk is rather static, the indexing should rarely change. Drive E: became busy today, but before I noticed it and then tried to removed the Autoruns items. I had quit. That drive is used to store system images and I have that setup to run during the night on Weekends.
     
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    wjburl

    wjburl Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    Even though I've marked this as resolved, I really haven't found the answer as to what was causing the activity. If anything new occurs, I post it in this thread.
     
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  15. 2015/04/05
    Evan Omo

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    Alright sounds good. :)
     
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