#WD DRIVE UTILITIES 2.0.0.76 UPDATE#
To disable it, use services.msc or Autoruns and disable Evoluent Driver Update Service (displayed as EvoDriverUpdateService in Autoruns) and restart your system.
While I have no idea why it would be accessing your other drives, it might be interacting with your USB controllers/ports in a way that is causing the drives to spin up. The next item it showed was your mouse's driver update service. You can re-enable it if disabling it causes any issues, but it isn't likely to cause any problems. Please try disabling IP Helper as instructed in this article and restart the system to see if it makes any difference. The WMI service also showed IP Helper accessing it. The removal of Dell support Assist and re-boot took merely minutes (maybe 4-5mins) and I conducted it almost immediately after you posted your last response. There just appears to be many more instances of WmiPrvSE before the powershell entries begin.Īs I write this, the drives are still spinning which is completely inconsistent with how they have been behaving this whole time you have been assisting me. All I can deduce is that the drives are seemingly now completely ignoring the Windows Power setting to spin down after 2 mins of idle activity (I reduced it from 5mins to 2mins yesterday when I realised this troubleshooting unfortunately for me, may end up being like the 'Never Ending Story' film.īefore powershell is invoked I notice a greater prevalence of the WmiPrvSE service in process monitor this time around (in case that means anything). I have been waiting for them to spin down like usual so I could perform consistency in testing before reporting back as I have been thus far. The fact they are not spinning down at all now is in fact why my reply is so delayed.
#WD DRIVE UTILITIES 2.0.0.76 SOFTWARE#
Although this sux majorly, is this perhaps a clue that some dell software is perhaps involved in the PC calling home to the 5 drives? (because there was a minor change in symptoms). The mysterious read/write/query type activity now appears to be consistent. What is very strange since uninstalling Dell Support Assist, is that now the drives are not even spinning down at all. I have attached the latest Process Monitor Log files for the last ten minutes or so of activity since re-boot (both XML and PML versions with Stacks included).
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