Re: svchost.exe & store.xml - Laptop Hard Drive

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What anti-virus application or security suite is installed? What
anti-spyware applications (other than Defender)? What third-party
firewall
(if any)?
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Dave Onex wrote:
I'm troubleshooting a problem with my laptop's hard drive not going to
sleep
after 5 minutes. To that end I broke out Process Monitor to take a look
at
what is accessing the hard drive.

What I'm finding is repeated attempts to CreateFile;

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application
Data\Microsoft\Provisioning\store.xml

that results in a NAME NOT FOUND error or NAME COLLISION. I actually
created
a store.xml file in that directory thinking that would make it go away -
it
hasn't.

Does anyone know why svchost.exe is continually trying to create a file
called store.xml and how can I stop it?


Hi Robear;

It's XP Pro SP#3 with all updates. There are no anti-virus applications
installed.

I've been using Process Monitor to show each (and all) applications that are
accessing the drive in real-time. The only thing left is the Wireless
Network Provisioning service (that's been disabled) trying to access
C:\Documents and Settings\All
Users\Application\Data\Microsoft\Provisioning\store.xml

As far as we can see it shouldn't be doing that given that the service is
disabled. I've confirmed it in another fashion - by turning off the WiFi
card it stops trying to write/create/access that file.

Thanks;
Dave


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