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Need some help finding out what is doing this in Win7 HP 64-bit.
Alright call me paranoid but I never seen win 98, me or xp do this so its not me being paranoid I hope. Anyway here is the issue, sometimes when my pc has been idle for like 15 min or so, my HDD starts being used like crazy, now auto disk defrag is off, system recovery is on, search indexer is pretty much turned off, auto virus scans are not turned on. Bascally I am wondering what the heck is suddendly using my HDD like mad, it tends to stop if the mouse is touched. Its been doing this since I first got the pc but still its been bothering me. I've also ran virus scans and my system comes up clean so I doubt its a virus.
Any idea what is doing this? if not, know of any program that can like, track what program is accessing the hdd over a timeframe (when I hit start till I hit stop) so I can try to figure out whats going on here. Thanks all.
Edit: I think I may have figured it out, might have been windows defender that was set to scan around 2 AM, and only when system is idle. So this might be why.
Last edited by Siveria; 22 Apr 2013 at 03:51.