RE: hard drive memory problem
From: markdownsouth (markdownsouth_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/01/04
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Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 10:03:02 -0800
Use filemon from Sysinternals to see what is writing to the hard drive. Also,
make sure that your pagefile is set at a fixed size and not a range-much
better performance.
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/filemon.shtml
"Andy" wrote:
> I recently upgraded to DSL internet service, and since then, though I have
> taken precaution measures to make my system secure, my open hard drive space
> seems to be declining at an alarming rate. My laptop is an older one (Dell
> Inspiron 7000) but it handles XP Home edition well and uses the DSL
> connection fine. I've enabled WEP and MAC address security along with
> ZoneAlarm firewall and Norton antivirus. However, despite all this, it seems
> like every time I look, my hard drive open space has declined by 50-100 Megs,
> and so now I'm practically out of space.
>
> Any help or suggestions are appreciated.
>
> thanks
> -a.
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