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I don't know much about computers but I seem to be having a lot of
disc activity since changing my hard drive and reinstalling windows
xp.

I've been to windows task manager & have enabled I/O Read Bytes & I/O
Write bytes.

When I'm doing nothing the following 3 programs are constantly
changing. I've been online for about 3 hours now & these are the
approximate figures:

ashserve.exe (Avast antivirus):

read: 4,700,000,000 write: 3,700,000

svhost.exe:

read: 705,000,000 write: 718,000,000

lsass.exe:

read: 1,010,000 write: 540,000

Today is the 1st time my firewall reporeted that lsass requested
internet access though this disc activity has been noticable since
doing the reinstall.

Any help or advice would be appreciated!

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John, take a look at this article
http://www.proz.com/translation-ar [...] erformance

"John Latter" <jorolat@msn.com> wrote in message
news:mvjsb1ph5bgefr1mvrkc32jppn3e0ht68m@4ax.com...
>I don't know much about computers but I seem to be having a lot of
> disc activity since changing my hard drive and reinstalling windows
> xp.
>
> I've been to windows task manager & have enabled I/O Read Bytes & I/O
> Write bytes.
>
> When I'm doing nothing the following 3 programs are constantly
> changing. I've been online for about 3 hours now & these are the
> approximate figures:
>
> ashserve.exe (Avast antivirus):
>
> read: 4,700,000,000 write: 3,700,000
>
> svhost.exe:
>
> read: 705,000,000 write: 718,000,000
>
> lsass.exe:
>
> read: 1,010,000 write: 540,000
>
> Today is the 1st time my firewall reporeted that lsass requested
> internet access though this disc activity has been noticable since
> doing the reinstall.
>
> Any help or advice would be appreciated!
>

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Thankyou for the link Rich Barry (lucky you!), I've read the article
but it seems to be concerned with speeding things up rather than
addressing continuously accessing of the hard drive - or am I missing
something?

John

On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 20:24:20 GMT, "Rich Barry"
<rbarryNot@socal.rr.com> wrote:

>John, take a look at this article
> http://www.proz.com/translation-ar [...] erformance
>
>"John Latter" <jorolat@msn.com> wrote in message
>news:mvjsb1ph5bgefr1mvrkc32jppn3e0ht68m@4ax.com...
>>I don't know much about computers but I seem to be having a lot of
>> disc activity since changing my hard drive and reinstalling windows
>> xp.
>>
>> I've been to windows task manager & have enabled I/O Read Bytes & I/O
>> Write bytes.
>>
>> When I'm doing nothing the following 3 programs are constantly
>> changing. I've been online for about 3 hours now & these are the
>> approximate figures:
>>
>> ashserve.exe (Avast antivirus):
>>
>> read: 4,700,000,000 write: 3,700,000
>>
>> svhost.exe:
>>
>> read: 705,000,000 write: 718,000,000
>>
>> lsass.exe:
>>
>> read: 1,010,000 write: 540,000
>>
>> Today is the 1st time my firewall reporeted that lsass requested
>> internet access though this disc activity has been noticable since
>> doing the reinstall.
>>
>> Any help or advice would be appreciated!
>>
>

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John Latter

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http://members.aol.com/jorolat/TEM.html

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John, have you reinstalled all the Windows Updates and Device Drivers?
Having read the article you noticed that svhost and lsass.exe are two
of the main processes running in the background. Your Avast would
certainly be another. Have you checked for any
Malware? Try out these sites to do a good check

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

http://www.webroot.com/

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads [...] laylang=en

http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescann [...] e=appvisit

"John Latter" <jorolat@msn.com> wrote in message
news:mvjsb1ph5bgefr1mvrkc32jppn3e0ht68m@4ax.com...
>I don't know much about computers but I seem to be having a lot of
> disc activity since changing my hard drive and reinstalling windows
> xp.
>
> I've been to windows task manager & have enabled I/O Read Bytes & I/O
> Write bytes.
>
> When I'm doing nothing the following 3 programs are constantly
> changing. I've been online for about 3 hours now & these are the
> approximate figures:
>
> ashserve.exe (Avast antivirus):
>
> read: 4,700,000,000 write: 3,700,000
>
> svhost.exe:
>
> read: 705,000,000 write: 718,000,000
>
> lsass.exe:
>
> read: 1,010,000 write: 540,000
>
> Today is the 1st time my firewall reporeted that lsass requested
> internet access though this disc activity has been noticable since
> doing the reinstall.
>
> Any help or advice would be appreciated!
>

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