Madhu, > However, I'd like to have a utility that lets me see which programs are > accessing the hard disk at any given instance. > Do you know of any such utility? Take a look at Diskmon [1] by SysInternals [2]; it's freeware. James Aylard 1. http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/diskmon.shtml 2. http://www.sysinternals.com/