Subj : Utility To : Bennie Hutto From : Dale Ross Date : Tue Jul 03 2001 04:24 pm BH> Hello everybody! BH> I'm looking for something, and have no idea if BH> it even exists (and if not, here's an idea!) BH> I need a program that monitors the hard drive, and BH> if something is written, changed, deleted, resized, BH> whatever, will let me know AS IT HAPPENS. I often BH> sit here and the computer is completely idle, no BH> activity whatsoever, and the hard drive has some BH> very short burst of activity and then idle again BH> for a little bit. I wouldn't think much of it if it BH> happened on some sort of time schedule for about the BH> same length of time, but it's intermittant, and I'd BH> just like to satisfy my curiosity. Thanks for any BH> help. You do not say which version of Windows. Since this area if for Windows NT we can assume Windows NT or Windows 2000. The application is already written for you and supplied with the system. Run performance monitor. First thing that you should monitor is the paging file and monitor memory with counters setup for page faults, reads and writes. You setup counters for each of your processes on your system. Dale ....Diet Pepsi SEEN-BY's: You stuffed the right one, baby. --- FTNed 2001 Build 0040-RC1/Win2k * Origin: http://www.HarborWebs.com:8080 (1:379/1) .