installed Office XP, now have annoying background disk activity

[Mike Steffen]

I installed Office XP alongside Office 97 on a Win98 machine. I originally installed the media files

Now, when the machine is idle for a minute or so, some background task starts accessing the disk drive like crazy. At first I thought this was fastfind re-indexing, and noting the MANY media files, I uninstalled the media files, and set fastfind to re-index every 72 hours. I had the disk activity problem again the next day

So, I thought maybe it is my antivirus scanning, so I turned that off. Still I get daily disk activity

Somebody asked if maybe Windows is trying to defrag my disk, but there is still 7Gig of space left, and I can find no control for Windows defrag utility is that is the culprit

So I am open to suggestions... anybody got any suggestions how I can identify what is causing this disk activity and MAKE IT STOP

TIA
Mike

 

[C.S.]

When you press CTRL-ALT-DEL when this background activity occurs, what
applications or processes are showing? Sure sounds like findfast type
of activity.
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[Eric Lawrence [MSFT]]

You can watch all disk accesses on your computer with the free tool FileMon,
available at www.sysinternals.com

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I installed Office XP alongside Office 97 on a Win98 machine. I originally installed the media files.

Now, when the machine is idle for a minute or so, some background task

starts accessing the disk drive like crazy. At first I thought this was
fastfind re-indexing, and noting the MANY media files, I uninstalled the
media files, and set fastfind to re-index every 72 hours. I had the disk
activity problem again the next day.

So, I thought maybe it is my antivirus scanning, so I turned that off.

Still I get daily disk activity.

Somebody asked if maybe Windows is trying to defrag my disk, but there is

still 7Gig of space left, and I can find no control for Windows defrag
utility is that is the culprit.

So I am open to suggestions... anybody got any suggestions how I can

identify what is causing this disk activity and MAKE IT STOP?

 

[Will 12]

Although I have no answer for you, I can tell you that I have experienced the same thing on two of the computers at my company. Both times I installed Office XP, and both times I have had users complain about the excessive hard disk activity. I have gone crazy trying to figure out why this is happening. I'm glad to see that it's not just me! Now if we could only find a way to fix this.

 

[Mike Steffen]

FileMon seems to point to a process named MOSEARCH or Microsoft Office Search Service creating all the disk traffic. Any ideas on what this does? Any ideas on if/how it can be deactivated?

Mike

 

[mike steffen]

Problem solved. Under the file menu there is now a Search option. If I select that, I get a Basic search pane with a hypertext search options... selection. That gives an indexing search service option which I disabled and the background disk activity has ceased.

 

[George Hester]

"Under the file menu..." What file menu are you talking about?