Accessing hard drive for no reason

[melt7]

This is appearing intermittently. The mouse pointer turns into the hourglass about every two seconds (hd light comes on), stays on the hourglass for a couple of seconds, then back to the pointer. I've closed out all unneccesary programs, with only Explorer and Sys Tray open. Any ideas why this is going on?

 

[wlpsyp]

What OS are you using? If it is NT, 2K or XP you can go to the Task Manager then processes and click on the CPU bar (this will arange the screen so that the program using the CPU the most is listed at the top) and see what is running.

 

[melt7]

98SE

 

[oldbear]

I use to have a western digital hard drive in 98SE the would access for longer periods of time than 2 seconds...I first noticed this while online and immediately thought someone was snooping in my hard drive. I broke the internet connection...feeling rather violated...wondered what this "person" had done. A few days later, I noticed the hard drive do the same thing without me being connected to the web. Shock!! why was my hard drive accessing.....I finally realized it was doing some type of house keeping...never really checked it out...didn't have anything turned to happen at a later date like scandisk or defrag. I just decided it was built into the hard drive and never gave it another thought...my data wasn't corrupted so "no harm, no foul".

 

[melt7]

No, this constant accessing of the hd is causing my pc to run slower--not something acceptable to me.

Anyway, after reading wylsyp's post, I downloaded "Process Viewer", and I tried killing things at random. It appears that killing MSGSRV32.exe worked. Now the question is, is there a problem with MSGSRV32 or something that it's "handling"? Any tips would be appreciated.

 

[retiring]

Are you using Mcaffee anti-virus?

 

[icrf]

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http://www.seniors-on-line.com/discussion/_disc4/00000693.htm

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[melt7]

No McAfee...have had both Norton and AVG on this pc.