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That will monitor my PC and tell me what the hell it's doing when the hard drive suddenly leaps into a frenzy of activity, despite the fact that I haven't done a damned thing for ten minutes? All versions of Windows have done this, but each new generation seems to get worse. Given that indexing isn't enabled, what the heck is it doing?
Will Rogers never met me.
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Sending your data to the NSA...
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Surely there's no need to do that? They've already got it! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience
Greg King
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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
Lily Tomlin, Actress
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There might be... but it would access the disk when you haven't done a darned thing for ten minutes.
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Without knowing anything else about your system than what you mention here, it could be Windows Update kicking in. If you have Automatic Update set to "Automatic" or "Download updates, but let me choose when to install them", there is no setting to control at what time the download occurs.
You just might be able to use BITSAdmin[^] with the "/Monitor /allusers" or "/List /allusers" command line switch to see if a BITS download is in progress.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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There are many utilities under Sysinternals: Some names are diskmon, portmon, objmon etc etc etc...
Once upon a time, Sysinternals used to be a 3rd party; Now it is part of Microsoft offering and all of them are free.
Great Utilities with Simple UI and if u can get past the initial learning curve, it will reveal your needle. If not, all they'll end up do is shift the Haystack you are looking.
Another brute-forcish way to find out this is to shut down MS Services 1 by 1. It is claimed as "risky" by MS folks but if you keep proper track of what you are doing, it is not that risky.
What is most amazing is that the service named "Remote Procedure Call" affects even simple things as Windows explorer and error messages that OS throws out are amusing to look at (i.e. if you are not hyper paranoid types). Whether it is something to with .NET Remoting or external data feeder can be detected by PortMon.
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ExcellentOrg wrote: Some names are diskmon, portmon, objmon etc etc etc...
Pokemon???
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience
Greg King
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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
Lily Tomlin, Actress
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It does what it should do INDEXING!! 
is this a signature ?
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Indexing and Defrag are the two things that come to my mind.
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Free utilities don't work.
I've got a hard drive that goes dink.....dink.....dink dink....dink...dink dink dink.............................................dink......dink dink...........
but all the free hard drive testing utilities say everything is just fine.
Buncha liars.
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so I updated to Maverick.
Downloaded new XCode
The icon on the Launchpad has nice animated sparkles (presumably to show it's newly updated).
I went back in to take a screenshot but it's back to normal now 
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
.\\axxx
(That's an 'M')
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...and? Impressions?
I played around with the tabs in Finder and am underwhelmed to say the least. The very first thing I tried to do was coalesce 2 finder windows into 1 window with tabs. like you do with Browsers. No dice.
...and then of course I realised that Safari itself can't do this. 
However, given that I'm not blown away, the one thing I really, really like about Mavericks is that it is, in fact, so very familiar. They didn't follow the iOS7 design and make everything spidery and glarey, and they didn't do a Windows 8 and, well, do a Windows 8. That makes me so sad that at this point in the IT cycle the thing that impresses me is when a company doesn't go nutso trying to be different for the sake of being different. Which, in this case is nicely ironic given Apple's tagline.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I have to agree- basically I haven't noticed much different which is kind of nice - I understand there's some stuff going on behind the scenes that make things faster and more efficient - but I'm happy to just be able to get on and do stuff without learning a new way!
If I understand what you are talking about with the tabs - you can do it;
Take two Finder windows - one with at least two tabs, and drag the tab to another finder window; The drag takes the form of a miniture window - drop that on the other finder window and it will be added as a new tab.
Same in Safari - only you have to wait until it turns in to a horixontal bar before dropping it in the new window for it to be added as a tab rather than as a new window.
The only problem is that when they number from zero not one - so when there are zero tabs there's nothing to drag.
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
.\\axxx
(That's an 'M')
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Ah - I see. I was actually expecting the beahaviour to be that if you dragged one window on to another you'd get tabs. It's not intuitive (to me) that you have to have the windows in "tab mode" for it to start working. (ie you "start from zero" comment).
So close to being a great feature...
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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How come one of those 8.9" Kindle[^] has a 2500x1600 resolution!
Whereas it's impossible to buy a laptop with 1920x1200 resolution now!
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Super Lloyd wrote: Whereas it's impossible to buy a laptop with 1920x1200 resolution now!
Yeah, that annoys me to no end. Everything is now sized for video aspect ratio. Sucks for people where height is important.
Marc
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Super Lloyd wrote: it's impossible to buy a laptop with 1920x1200 resolution now!
How about the Dell XPS 15[^] that sports a 3200 x 1800 display?
/ravi
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Ho...
I want the same in 17" 
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Haven't you heard? You're not supposed to buy real computers anymore... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience
Greg King
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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
Lily Tomlin, Actress
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When Streetview become Insideview[^]
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Oh come on, Leslie... it was only two posts below this one!!
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