Windows – Tool to show processes writing to the hard drive

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Is there a tool that will show me what applications are writing to the hard drive in real time? I'm thinking something like Task Manager but for I/O. I've got a number of background processes running, and can never tell when Visual Studio is holding everything up, or some other process is hogging the disk (especially when the processor is running at less than 20%).

Best Answer

ProcMon from Sysinternals/Microsoft.