USB Drive constant activity

[Daemonmonkey]

Hello

 

After I installed ASC v6 my USB drive, a Samsung G3 Station, is constantly being accessed by the Monitor task.

 

As the drive has a sleep function to save energy and possibly the drive itself, I would need a way to disable the Monitor program from constantly seeking the USB drive.

 

Could you please help me with this?

[Daemonmonkey]

Nobody has any answer?

 

Does anybody have an answer?

[Toppack]

Which utility in ASC is accessing the external drive?

Determine that, and then go into that utilities Settings and De-select that drive, by removing check-mark in box.

[Scannan]

Hi Daemonmonkey

 

What exactly doyou mean by The Monitor Function.

[Daemonmonkey]

@Toppack

@Scannan

 

I've found out that the utility "Monitor.Exe" which resides in the ASC folder, is the culprit. Killing that process stops the excessive accessing of the drive.

 

Starting the process manually doesn't come up with any options to enable/disable monitoring of drives.

 

I don't know where I can go to change it's behavior, as I've gone through all settings and there is no "Disable".

[solbjerg]

Hi Daemonmonkey

The "disabling" of monitor.exe is accomplished by unticking the option to run the performance monitor in the settings.

(p.s. I would take a look at the details of the settings for monitor.exe first though, in case you wish to use it at a later time)

Cheers

solbjerg

 

@Toppack

@Scannan

 

I've found out that the utility "Monitor.Exe" which resides in the ASC folder, is the culprit. Killing that process stops the excessive accessing of the drive.

 

Starting the process manually doesn't come up with any options to enable/disable monitoring of drives.

 

I don't know where I can go to change it's behavior, as I've gone through all settings and there is no "Disable".

[Scannan]

Daemonmonkey

 

Thank you for the feedback, as I was not sure whether it was the ASC monitor or the system monitor.

 

Try the following which may solve your problem.

 

Go to Performance Monitor GUI

Double click on the Disk area (see attached printscreen 1)

 

This will open the Performance screen . On this screen click on Properties icon (see attached printscreen 2)

 

This will open the System Monitor Properties screen. Select Data (see attached printscreen 3). Here you should be able to remove your USB drive from the list.

 

Let us know if this works.

[Daemonmonkey]

Thanks solbjerg, I didn't notice that one! I have disabled it and it seems it now doesn't start.

 

 

@Scannan

Double-clicking on "Disk" opens Resource Monitor in Win7, not the one exemplified by your attachment.

[Scannan]

Unfortunately I do not use W7, but do you have a properties option in the resource monitor, and if so you should be able to remove your USB drive from the monitoring list, rather than disabling the Performance Monitor entirely.

[Scannan]

Daemonmonkey

 

The same procedure applies forthe W7 Resource monitor. Please see attached screenshot.