"Brian" <brian.janko@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> My hard drive has recently begun spinning for apparently no
> reason. I can reboot and disable extra items in Win XP (via msconfig)
> and after reboot the system idles fine for awhile. But in less than an
> hour, it starts working: the hard drive starts spinning very fast and
> it will keep spinning fast for hours, if I let it.
>
> Virus scans (w/NOD 32) are fine. Spyware scans Adware, Ada-ware,
> S&D Spybot, F-Secure BackLight, Registry Mechanic, Win Defender,
> Malicious Software Removal Tool, all come up negative.
>
> I need to find out how to isolate what's using up my system
> resources. Googling has not turned up much.
>
View your Task Manager when the speed up starts.
Something will be using the CPU.