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I usually have several application running simultaneously on the system. The biggest memory-wise are MS Visual Studio and a Chrome with a bunch of tabs.

Something is always keeping my hard drive loaded though. It is not Torrent application, which could be an obvious reason. Is there a Windows 7-compatible application, that can tell me, which processes are loading up the hard drive performance-wise?

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Windows "Resource monitor" will show many of the Performance data items, in a very nice display. In the disk section it will lay out all the programs that are, and were recently accessing the disks.

There is a gadget available called TopProcess that can be configured to show which processes are using the most cpu ,mem, and (I think) disk load. very small. I used to use a similar sidebar like guage that would show the top processes and in its small package it came in very handy, telling me who the hog was at the moment. without taking a second monitor to see it :-)

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  • Yes, Resource Monitor does it even better!
    – Maxim V. Pavlov
    Oct 18, 2011 at 20:30
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    @Maxim: Please note that the Resource Monitor has a decay effect while Process Monitor has not, you might see different results if you want to use this over a prolonged time interval...
    – Tamara Wijsman
    Oct 18, 2011 at 22:19
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Sysinternal's Process Monitor will show you this information quite handily. It's a pretty powerful tool, especially if you have some idea of what you're looking for to filter by.

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  • I use it on a daily basis. No way to find out disk load by process that I know of.
    – Maxim V. Pavlov
    Oct 18, 2011 at 20:01
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    Well, ok, there is. I needed to add I/O Reads and Writes into the monitored columns on the main data grid. Thanks
    – Maxim V. Pavlov
    Oct 18, 2011 at 20:04
  • I feel obligated to point out that you never specified HOW you wanted to see it anyway... :)
    – Shinrai
    Oct 18, 2011 at 20:16

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