Hi, on my new laptop with Premium license I have observed that every 5-6 min
the application bar (set to hide itself) reappears for a little bit.
At those times It also happens, as I have seen using performance disk
monitoring utility (from task manager), that the disk exhibits peaks of about
100KB.

So I suspect that it is some hidden activity.
The files that seems to be written are paging file or another starting with
$ (.
Can I trace this issue to take it out? It's very annoying.

Can defragmentation be involved, or norton suite?
Thankx for your attention
ricardo

Hi,

> Can defragmentation be involved,

Unlikely with the included utility as it runs under low priority. If you've
replaced it with a different product you might want to check any auto-defrag
settings.

> or norton suite?

Very likely. Or Google desktop/toolbar. Try using process explorer to
identify it:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sys...sexplorer.mspx

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"ricardo.l" <ricardol@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hi, on my new laptop with Premium license I have observed that every 5-6
> min
> the application bar (set to hide itself) reappears for a little bit.
> At those times It also happens, as I have seen using performance disk
> monitoring utility (from task manager), that the disk exhibits peaks of
> about
> 100KB.
>
> So I suspect that it is some hidden activity.
> The files that seems to be written are paging file or another starting
> with
> $ (.
> Can I trace this issue to take it out? It's very annoying.
>
> Can defragmentation be involved, or norton suite?
> Thankx for your attention
> ricardo

"Rick Rogers" wrote:

> Hi,
>

> > Can defragmentation be involved,

>
> Unlikely with the included utility as it runs under low priority. If you've
> replaced it with a different product you might want to check any auto-defrag
> settings.
>

> > or norton suite?

>
> Very likely. Or Google desktop/toolbar. Try using process explorer to
> identify it:
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sys...sexplorer.mspx

I went through this link, by googling about norton suite and my issue:

"Performance Issue With Symantec AntiVirus 10.2 from Jon Forrest..."
http://ls.berkeley.edu/mail/micronet/2007/0176.html

Following the end of the thread (0178.html) it is pointed out that indexing
and other stuff could be involved, rather than norton AV that author assumed
on his 1st assumption.
Since this is exactly my problem as well, if you agree with that, can u tell
me how to access and disable the activity mentioned in that post (which seems
to be turned on by default?).
Thanks for ur follow up, Ricardo

I confirm that those two files (sppolicy.log and bbnotify.log) are causing my
problem, so it's symantec suite activity (related to task bar hiding behavior
however).

I ve been finally able to find out how where loging setting are, within
norton suite.
Even with loging disabled the problem is still in place.

The process ccSvcHst.exe is tied to four services, and just one is about
loging.
Others are about Lic netconnect, settings management, liv updat notices.

Maybe the solution lies in one of them.

Another update from me:
by using process monitor, after disabling activity loging, one of 2 files
(SPPolicy.log) actually doesnt bother anymore.
However the other is still running (BBNotify.log).

From file system activity I see activity of ccSvcHst.exe on this path:
C:\ProgramData\Symantec\PIF\{B8E1DD85-8582-4c61-B58F-2F227FCA9A08}\PollManager

(operations: create file, querydir, close file)

So I should find out now how it is involved into this matter.

Another update from me:
by using process monitor, after disabling activity loging, one of 2 files
(SPPolicy.log) actually doesnt bother anymore.
However the other is still running (BBNotify.log).

From file system activity I see activity of ccSvcHst.exe on this path:
C:\ProgramData\Symantec\PIF\{B8E1DD85-8582-4c61-B58F-2F227FCA9A08}\PollManager

(operations: create file, querydir, close file)

So I should find out now how it is involved into this matter.

Another update from me:
by using process monitor, after disabling activity loging, one of 2 files
(SPPolicy.log) actually doesnt bother anymore.
However the other is still running (BBNotify.log).

From file system activity I see activity of ccSvcHst.exe on this path:
C:\ProgramData\Symantec\PIF\{B8E1DD85-8582-4c61-B58F-2F227FCA9A08}\PollManager

(operations: create file, querydir, close file)

So I should find out now how it is involved into this matter.

Hi,

For me the solution would be simple - remove the offending program and
replace it with an alternative. If you wish to keep using the Norton Suite
of programs, you need to address this with their support at this point since
it is their software causing the issue.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"ricardo.l" <ricardol@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Another update from me:
> by using process monitor, after disabling activity loging, one of 2 files
> (SPPolicy.log) actually doesnt bother anymore.
> However the other is still running (BBNotify.log).
>
> From file system activity I see activity of ccSvcHst.exe on this path:
> C:\ProgramData\Symantec\PIF\{B8E1DD85-8582-4c61-B58F-2F227FCA9A08}\PollManager
>
> (operations: create file, querydir, close file)
>
> So I should find out now how it is involved into this matter.

"Rick Rogers" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> For me the solution would be simple - remove the offending program and
> replace it with an alternative. If you wish to keep using the Norton Suite
> of programs, you need to address this with their support at this point since
> it is their software causing the issue.

yes, I think so. So far I have disabled the bar hiding feature, but if they
don't fix it Ill remove the (preinstalled) suite (90 days trial). Thank you
again, sincerely Ricardo.