Why the fuck is Outlook grinding my hard drive?
 

Alright, so everytime this thing is running in the background,
it queries the HD like every 3 seconds. It's annoying as fucking
hell because you keep on hearing the "tshtt... shtt. psthh.."
stupid hard drive noises.

this is with no new mail coming in, just sitting there doing
nothing (checks new mail every 5 min).

the other thing is, the bullshit filter starts filtering after it
lets through like 50 spams, why doesn't it ALWAYS filter..

alright, that's all i got...

Most likely spyware. Or a trojan using your puter for spam.

that's what i thought, but being a computer geek i made
my own firewall and port sniffer, there is no data coming in
our out until it sends/receives mail.

it's just grinding the mother fucker..

format c!

here is software I used to help a client port his legacy apps to new systems:

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/fr.../diskmon.shtml
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/filemon.shtml
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/regmon.shtml

they allow you to see realtime process activity to files/registry/disk etc. pretty
useful!

thanks a lot, will give those programs a shot.

post if they helped you figure it out, I'm always interested in problems/solutions :)

same here as well :thumbsup

will do :)