Constant HD read/write WinXP Pro

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Your logs are all clean ( except for the observation below). You may want to try checking in to see if a particular software application you are running is performing lots of disk read/writes. Possible candidates would include Adobe and Symantec.


Observation. I see the below in your c:\windows\win.ini file. Do you know what this is for? If not, you may want to delete these lines and reboot.

 

Yes it is and I have no idea what it is for so removing it would be a good idea. You can always add it back if it turns out you need it for something.

Yes and I have seen them sometime cause problems. Since you are not having malware problems, you need to check all software you are running and then also check for hardware issues.

3/4% is 0.0075 which is approximately zero, so I have no idea what you mean and % of what. Did you mean on the Performance tab of Task Manager that you see CPU Usage at 75% and it remains there? Or are you talking about on the Process tab that you see services.exe taking 75% (not 3/4% which you cannot see since this column only shows increments of 1% ) of the CPU?

Quite typical.

Hmmm! win.ini which I just question what that line was for?

and other core OS files so something is strange.

I thought you said it was a new drive ( 4 months old ) ?

You don't need to boot UBCD to edit win.ini. You can just load it into notepad or any other text editor and modify it.