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Troubleshooting: Secret System Activities

If your hard drive LED is flickering permanently or the hour glass icon won’t go away, you may well be wondering what is going on with your system. The problem is difficult to detect without additional tools that can analyse your system and check exactly which files and DLLs are opened by which programs, or which program is using up all of your system resources. However, once you are armed with this information, it soon becomes clear which program is causing the strange behaviour on your PC. You can find out how to use these important tools in this article, in order to track down and neutralise irritating errors that cause your system’s performance to be sluggish.

Category: Issues, Optimisation
Issue: 2017 Issue 12 December
Operating Systems: 7, 8, 10
Article Reference: T640