Intermittent freeze due hard disk reading

Can somebody help me with the following issue?

I'm using Vista Home Premium. Every 10 seconds my hard disk does
something por half second that freezes my pc for the same period of
time. If I'm moving the mouse, then the cursor gets stuck for half
second. The biggest problem is that I use the computer to watch TV so
the TV signal freezes every 10seconds which is very annoying.

I disconnected the indexing service & I stopped the antivirus, but the
problem is still there. I'm sure it is some sort of service running in
the background.

Thank you,


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cocobongo

"cocobongo" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
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>
> Can somebody help me with the following issue?
>
> I'm using Vista Home Premium. Every 10 seconds my hard disk does
> something por half second that freezes my pc for the same period of
> time. If I'm moving the mouse, then the cursor gets stuck for half
> second. The biggest problem is that I use the computer to watch TV so
> the TV signal freezes every 10seconds which is very annoying.
>
> I disconnected the indexing service & I stopped the antivirus, but the
> problem is still there. I'm sure it is some sort of service running in
> the background.
>
> Thank you,



Process monitor (free download) is a good tool for seeing what activity is
going on in real time ...

Process Monitor v2.6
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s.../bb896645.aspx

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Jon