[Rafiki]

In wishing to stop unnecessary HDD activity on WinXP SP2 and optimise PC performance, I noticed strange file access activity on my HDD every 5s and discovered it is being done by RoxMediaDB9.exe. The block below is a sample of one of the 5s accesses. Anybody know why this is necessary at such a rate? The block is repeated EXACTLY each time!

19:47:30 RoxMediaDB9.exe:3640 LOCK C:\Documents and Settings\John\Application Data\Roxio\MediaManager9\Album.ldb SUCCESS Excl: Yes Offset: 1073752577 Length: 1
19:47:30 RoxMediaDB9.exe:3640 READ C:\Documents and Settings\John\Application Data\Roxio\MediaManager9\Album.psod SUCCESS Offset: 86016 Length: 4096
19:47:30 RoxMediaDB9.exe:3640 LOCK C:\Documents and Settings\John\Application Data\Roxio\MediaManager9\Album.ldb SUCCESS Excl: Yes Offset: 1073833473 Length: 1
19:47:30 RoxMediaDB9.exe:3640 READ C:\Documents and Settings\John\Application Data\Roxio\MediaManager9\Album.psod SUCCESS Offset: 733184 Length: 4096
19:47:30 RoxMediaDB9.exe:3640 LOCK C:\Documents and Settings\John\Application Data\Roxio\MediaManager9\Album.ldb SUCCESS Excl: Yes Offset: 1610623489 Length: 257
19:47:30 RoxMediaDB9.exe:3640 LOCK C:\Documents and Settings\John\Application Data\Roxio\MediaManager9\Album.ldb SUCCESS Excl: Yes Offset: 1342188033 Length: 1
19:47:30 RoxMediaDB9.exe:3640 UNLOCK C:\Documents and Settings\John\Application Data\Roxio\MediaManager9\Album.ldb SUCCESS Offset: 1610623489 Length: 257
19:47:30 RoxMediaDB9.exe:3640 LOCK C:\Documents and Settings\John\Application Data\Roxio\MediaManager9\Album.ldb SUCCESS Excl: Yes Offset: 1610704385 Length: 257
19:47:30 RoxMediaDB9.exe:3640 LOCK C:\Documents and Settings\John\Application Data\Roxio\MediaManager9\Album.ldb SUCCESS Excl: Yes Offset: 1342268929 Length: 1
19:47:30 RoxMediaDB9.exe:3640 UNLOCK C:\Documents and Settings\John\Application Data\Roxio\MediaManager9\Album.ldb SUCCESS Offset: 1610704385 Length: 257
19:47:30 RoxMediaDB9.exe:3640 UNLOCK C:\Documents and Settings\John\Application Data\Roxio\MediaManager9\Album.ldb SUCCESS Offset: 1073833473 Length: 1
19:47:30 RoxMediaDB9.exe:3640 UNLOCK C:\Documents and Settings\John\Application Data\Roxio\MediaManager9\Album.ldb SUCCESS Offset: 1342268929 Length: 1
19:47:30 RoxMediaDB9.exe:3640 UNLOCK C:\Documents and Settings\John\Application Data\Roxio\MediaManager9\Album.ldb SUCCESS Offset: 1073752577 Length: 1
19:47:30 RoxMediaDB9.exe:3640 UNLOCK C:\Documents and Settings\John\Application Data\Roxio\MediaManager9\Album.ldb SUCCESS Offset: 1342188033 Length: 1
19:47:30 RoxMediaDB9.exe:3640 LOCK C:\Documents and Settings\John\Application Data\Roxio\MediaManager9\Album.ldb SUCCESS Excl: Yes Offset: 1073752577 Length: 1
19:47:30 RoxMediaDB9.exe:3640 READ C:\Documents and Settings\John\Application Data\Roxio\MediaManager9\Album.psod SUCCESS Offset: 86016 Length: 4096
19:47:30 RoxMediaDB9.exe:3640 LOCK C:\Documents and Settings\John\Application Data\Roxio\MediaManager9\Album.ldb SUCCESS Excl: Yes Offset: 1073840641 Length: 1
19:47:30 RoxMediaDB9.exe:3640 READ C:\Documents and Settings\John\Application Data\Roxio\MediaManager9\Album.psod SUCCESS Offset: 790528 Length: 4096
19:47:30 RoxMediaDB9.exe:3640 LOCK C:\Documents and Settings\John\Application Data\Roxio\MediaManager9\Album.ldb SUCCESS Excl: Yes Offset: 1610623489 Length: 257
19:47:30 RoxMediaDB9.exe:3640 LOCK C:\Documents and Settings\John\Application Data\Roxio\MediaManager9\Album.ldb SUCCESS Excl: Yes Offset: 1342188033 Length: 1
19:47:30 RoxMediaDB9.exe:3640 UNLOCK C:\Documents and Settings\John\Application Data\Roxio\MediaManager9\Album.ldb SUCCESS Offset: 1610623489 Length: 257
19:47:30 RoxMediaDB9.exe:3640 LOCK C:\Documents and Settings\John\Application Data\Roxio\MediaManager9\Album.ldb SUCCESS Excl: Yes Offset: 1610711553 Length: 257
19:47:30 RoxMediaDB9.exe:3640 LOCK C:\Documents and Settings\John\Application Data\Roxio\MediaManager9\Album.ldb SUCCESS Excl: Yes Offset: 1342276097 Length: 1
19:47:30 RoxMediaDB9.exe:3640 UNLOCK C:\Documents and Settings\John\Application Data\Roxio\MediaManager9\Album.ldb SUCCESS Offset: 1610711553 Length: 257
19:47:30 RoxMediaDB9.exe:3640 UNLOCK C:\Documents and Settings\John\Application Data\Roxio\MediaManager9\Album.ldb SUCCESS Offset: 1073840641 Length: 1
19:47:30 RoxMediaDB9.exe:3640 UNLOCK C:\Documents and Settings\John\Application Data\Roxio\MediaManager9\Album.ldb SUCCESS Offset: 1342276097 Length: 1
19:47:30 RoxMediaDB9.exe:3640 UNLOCK C:\Documents and Settings\John\Application Data\Roxio\MediaManager9\Album.ldb SUCCESS Offset: 1073752577 Length: 1
19:47:30 RoxMediaDB9.exe:3640 UNLOCK C:\Documents and Settings\John\Application Data\Roxio\MediaManager9\Album.ldb SUCCESS Offset: 1342188033 Length: 1
19:47:32 RoxMediaDB9.exe:3640 READ C:\Documents and Settings\John\Application Data\Roxio\MediaManager9\Album.psod SUCCESS Offset: 3584 Length: 512
19:47:32 RoxWatch9.exe:1416 QUERY INFORMATION C:\Documents and Settings\John\Desktop\ SUCCESS Attributes: D
19:47:32 RoxWatch9.exe:1416 QUERY INFORMATION C:\Documents and Settings\John\My Documents\ SUCCESS Attributes: DR

[tbrewst]

It's Media Manager accessing your drive to keep updated.If you want you can stop watching folders.You can do 1 of 2 things.
1)In the tool bar right click on the Media Manager icon and then choose "Stop watching folders"
2)Go to Start,Run and type in msconfig.When it comes up go to the startup tab and uncheck RoxWatchTray9.Reboot your computer and when it restarts check the box that says "don't show me this again" when the box pops up

[Rafiki]

tbrewst, on Nov 22 2006, 05:39 AM, said:

It's Media Manager accessing your drive to keep updated.If you want you can stop watching folders.You can do 1 of 2 things.
1)In the tool bar right click on the Media Manager icon and then choose "Stop watching folders"
2)Go to Start,Run and type in msconfig.When it comes up go to the startup tab and uncheck RoxWatchTray9.Reboot your computer and when it restarts check the box that says "don't show me this again" when the box pops up

Hey tbrewst! Cooool reply - used msconfig and it worked like a charm, plus found lots of other unnecessary stuff I could disable! Muchas Gracias!

[tbrewst]

You're very welcome

[deejay-55]

My OS is Vista. I had similar huge disk activity and have disabled RoxWatchTray9 as advised. Disk no longer hogged, but on startup I now get thefollowing error messages. Any suggestions please?

Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library
Runtime Error!
Program:: …ommon Files\Roxio
Shared\.0\SharedCOM\RoxWatchTray9.exe
This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an
unusual way.
Please contact the application’s support team for more information.

<Click OK.>

Error message:
Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library
Runtime Error!
Program:: …ommon Files\Roxio
Shared\.0\SharedCOM\RoxWatchTray9.exe
R6025
- Pure virtual function call

< Click OK>

[tbrewst]

I'm not at a Vista PC now but if I remember you need to uncheck Sonic SDK (or something like that) also.I can't remember if it's on the Startup tab or the Services tab.I got the same error and that solved it.