Tool to show processes writing to the hard drive?

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gfrizzle picture gfrizzle · Dec 15, 2008 · Viewed 28.3k times · Source

Is there a tool that will show me what applications are writing to the hard drive in real time? I'm thinking something like Task Manager but for I/O. I've got a number of background processes running, and can never tell when Visual Studio is holding everything up, or some other process is hogging the disk (especially when the processor is running at less than 20%).

Answer

Dirk Vollmar picture Dirk Vollmar · Dec 15, 2008

ProcMon from Sysinternals/Microsoft.

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