Hard Drive Usage Monitor

[Plecostomus]

Is there a program out there (free is good) that lets me see which programs/processes are polling the hard-drive? Last two days my laptop has been really slow and the hard-drive is running non stop.

Task manager shows CPU usage spiking to 99% on a regular rhythm every 10 seconds, but none of the processes listed show any CPU usage.

Something is running on here and I don't know what it is, and I need to identify it and stop it.

 

[Jadzia]

task manager's processes tab should show the share of cpu time between processes. Are none of those except system showing any active usage?

Because all processes appear here. cpu usage of hidden processes I think is added to system, so they (plus idle) should always add up to 100%.

 

[judge alba]

almost sounds like a virus of some sort you run anti virus prog or a antispyware prog?.

 

[backstept]

go to Start>Run>type in 'msconfig' then hit OK. go to the startup tab and look for anything you don't recognize
and before you disable anything, do a google search to make sure it's not anything important
I had to reformat once because I royally messed things up in there

 

[Plecostomus]

task manager's processes tab should show the share of cpu time between processes. Are none of those except system showing any active usage?

Because all processes appear here. cpu usage of hidden processes I think is added to system, so they (plus idle) should always add up to 100%.

Looking at the gauges and graph on the other screen I can see the regular periodic spikes and usage never drops below 20%

I'll look at the other tab and report back after the next interview.

almost sounds like a virus of some sort you run anti virus prog or a antispyware prog?.

I have run multiple scans with multiple programs I find nothing. IT Dood suggests that it might just be an "invisible windows update" running in the back-ground eating my resources. His suggestion is to let it run itself out without (which I am doing now)

go to Start>Run>type in 'msconfig' then hit OK. go to the startup tab and look for anything you don't recognize
and before you disable anything, do a google search to make sure it's not anything important
I had to reformat once because I royally messed things up in there

Yeah really. That and registry cleaner programs. CCleaner toasted my previous install, and I don't mean a little bit either! I mean BLACK SMOKING TOAST.