Vista - Constant network access

I have Vista Ultimate installed on my machine. This machine is
networked to another PC and to a network drive. I made the mistake of
Sync'ing my network drive to my main machine. I stopped this but now
the network is constantly accessing my main machine and the network
drive as if it is still sync'ing. Looking on the the main machine's
and network's drive I can find no files being created. I could not
find any scheduled tasks running. My CPU meter (on the sidebar) is
showing 30-50% usage when it should show nothing. Checking Sync Center
I find that the network drive is still visible but not sync'ing nor is
it scheduled to sync.

Under task manager a process called svchost.exe takes up the same
processor time. Deleting it stops the constant accessing. This process
is a service called wudfsvc in the Services list. If I try to stop the
service by right-clicking on it I get an error: "The requested control
is not valid for this service". I have tried to find this service in
the Services manager but could not. I think that stopping this service
would cure the problem. Does anyone know how to identify it? Also is
there any way of getting rid of the Sync on my network drive? It still
shows up in Sync Center and there appears to be no way of getting rid
of it.

Peter Simmonds

Hi,

I had the exact same symptom after setting up a NAS to house user files. chased down the syncing issue and all. I killed the process tree thread of svchost that appeared to be the culprit, and the access stopped.

It returned after maybe 5 minutes. Have you unconvered anything else about this symptom?

I did find that wudfsvc is "Windows Driver Foundation - User -mode Driver Framework" It shows up i the services under this name, but cannot be stopped.

thanks
kperkins

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