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Simon Sheppard

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Registered: 2005-08-27

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Accessing Performance Counters in PowerShell

Lee Holmes has a nice powershell script that can continuously display a list of running processes:

http://www.leeholmes.com/blog/Accessing … Shell.aspx

One advantage it offers over Task Manager is the disk activity column.  Since total disk activity is actually measured by several separate perf counters, it uses a heuristic to combine them into a single number.

Now, when you hear something drilling holes in your hard drive, you can find out what it is.