Tool to Show Real Time Disk Usage in Windows (XP, Vista)
Solution 1
You can view the IO usage in the system tray using Process Explorer by enabling "Options->I/O History Tray Icon".
Hover over the icon, and it will tell you which app is using the most IO right now.
Solution 2
Vista has this capability in Reliability and Performance monitor. Open it and expand the Disk section and you'll see disk stats per process.
Solution 3
Perfmon's Physical Disk and Logical Disk counters work great.
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AJ.
Updated on September 17, 2022Comments
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AJ. about 1 year
If you run Task Manager (or Process Explorer) and minimise it, it puts an icon in the icon tray which shows current processor usage as a little bar graph.
I would like to find a similar tool which will show me current disk activity in a similar way.
Even better... a tool which shows me a graph of recent disk activity.
Even better than that ... showing it by application.I'm mainly going to use this on Windows XP, but a tool which works for Vista would be useful too.
I know that some of the Sysinternals tools almost show me this, but none of them is quite there.
Many thanks for any suggestions.
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AJ. over 14 yearsnice. I had to go and get the latest version, which is fab. top tip!