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To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (75312)	5/8/2011 2:56:30 PM
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One more idea - have you ever tried the new Windows 7 system tool Resource Monitor (resmon) to trace the disk activity? It's a neat way to track down which process is causing what, regarding CPU, RAM, disk and network usage. Since you like screencasts here's one I happened to find: Windows 7 Screencast - Resource Monitor (resmon) Keith Combs - March 03, 2009 technet.microsoft.com One day I also had a lot of disk activity on me Lenovo ThinkPad W510 (which I still like a lot). In my case I found out that it was the Microsoft Windows Search Indexer. It did its job for a number of hours, then the disk access went back to normal. Good luck!