How to Check Which Program is Reading / Writing on the Hard Disk

Sometimes our computer starts responding slowly even though we have high-end computers. There are many factors involved in slowing down the computer but the most important can be your computer’s hard disk. The hard disk is the only mechanical part in the computer which makes computer systems slower.

As all the computer components are communicating with each other using high-speed electronics circuits but the only hard disk is the component that uses the mechanical motor for rotation of disks during reading and writing from the disk.

During reading and writing on the disk, there are many software’s installed on the computer performing this job simultaneously. If your computer stops responding or responding slowly you can check which program is reading or writing on the disk.

Check Which Program is Reading / Writing on the Hard Disk

Right-click the taskbar and select Task Manager

Once you clicked the task manager option, it will open windows task manager where you can see a list of running programs and many other options.

In the main processes tab, you can see percentage uses of your CPU, RAM, Hard disk and Network.

Now click on the details tab and you will see a detailed view of what applications are running and how many instances are running.

Now right click on any column and then click on select columns.

Once you click on the select column it will open a new selection box.

Select I/O reads, I/O writes and click OK.

Now you will see two more columns in details tab with the title I/O reads and I/O writes with values which shows that which software is reading and or writing on the disk with which speed.