What the heck is Outlook doing with my harddisk??

[jsteph]

Hi all,
Just recently, I've noticed that my disk light (Win XP sp2, Outlook 2K3) is constantly clattering when nothing is going on--not just that soft blinking--I'm talking about noisy thrashing.

A look in Task Mgr shows i/o read and writes going crazy for outlook. I am not compacting data files and I'm unaware of outlook ever doing that sort of stuff on it's own. It is not sending or recieving--there is nothing in the in or outbox, and my send/recieve is strictly on demand--nothing automatic there. I've used outlook for years and have never noticed this before. I *have* however, recently done some windows updates. Does anyone know if there was an udpate to Outlook or Windows that might cause this? (and what is it doing anyway?)
Thanks,
--Jim

 

[jdemmi]

Could it be indexing your inbox and folders?

-- Jason
"It's Just Ones and Zeros

 

[goombawaho]

Is it Outlook 2007?? If so, the Windows Search 4.0 might be at work indexing (as stated above).

Use Process Explorer to take a look at the processes on your computer and see it the one I mentioned is present.

 

[jsteph]

I have no idea what it was, (it's outlook 2003 btw), I rebooted and it stopped. Just a very odd occurance. It wasn't Search 4.0, I had tried Search 4.0 a few weeks ago for about 10 minutes and it appeared to be a huge step backwards.
Thanks,
--Jim