Disk activity not showing up in Resource Monitor?

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  1. centaur78
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    Windows 7 ultimate x64
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    Right click on wmplayer.exe in resmon and select Analyze Wait Chain...

    Post a snapshot of what you see there
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  3. centaur78
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    Windows 7 ultimate x64
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    Hmm it looks like your pointers to the perfmon Counters are corrupted, you have to rebuild these with LODCTR from a elevated command prompt:

    Close resource monitor

    Click Start, and Click Run and type cmd
    At the prompt, type lodctr /r and press ENTER. This will repair the pointers with the system backup store.

    This will definitely solve your problem.
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  4. gidyn
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    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
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    centaur78 said:
    Right click on wmplayer.exe in resmon and select Analyze Wait Chain...

    Post a snapshot of what you see there
    Strangely enough, I opened resource monitor again to do this, and now it's working! (I just fixed some broken shortcuts in the Public folder where the videos were - I don't know whether that had anything to do with it.)

    The question now becomes, why is media player thrashing the hard drive? I've got 16Gb of RAM, but looping a 45MB video causes WMP to constantly read the file from disk (that's the 4Mb/s shown earlier).
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