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May 10, 2015 5 Ways to Find What Programs are Accessing Your Hard Disk Windows Resource Monitor is actually quite comprehensive and besides displaying disk activity, it also shows information for CPU, network and system memory activity, all of which can be shown at the same time or separately for more detail. To concentrate on the activity of the system drives only, select the Disk tab. This will give you a windows 7 - System process (PID 4) constantly accessing A lot of system services (I don't mean Windows Services) run under PID 4, the "System" process. Every time you open a file, you trigger a slew of background mechanisms such as the virtual memory manager caching the file in memory, moving other things around in memory, servicing page faults, etc.
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Vista Hard Disk Thrashing - Technology News Jan 12, 2010
The tests - How to optimise your Windows swap file | TechRadar
Microsoft Kernel Engineers Talk About Windows 7’s Kernel In Windows 7, synchronisation on a global scale is gone, making many operations lock-free. That’s gigabytes of swapping until the OOM kicks in, producing a lot of disk thrashing and the normal slowdown. The disk IO is producing the feeling that you need a new computer. Hopefully, in a few years swap will be totally unnecessary. Hard Disk Thrashing - Macrium Reflect