Hi.
My sister has a strange problem with her wireless Internet connection on Windows XP. I think it's related to the specific software that came with her modem, but I haven't been able to pin it down.
Basically, the computer is constantly accessing the hard disk -- you can hear it churning away non-stop -- whenever she is connected to her wireless router. (There is plenty of free space on the disk, so it can't be a virtual memory thing.) The disk activity stops immediately when you disconnect from the wireless network.
I used FileMon to see what was going on. Windows Explorer is constantly reading AVWLPRES.DLL (one of the wireless-related files, from Ashton Digital Corp; the file's "internal name" is PWLANRES.DLL, and a Google search suggests that it ultimately came from the Prism modem company).
Can anyone guess what is going on here? Why would Explorer be constantly reading a DLL, and only while connected to the Internet wirelessly? What could we try doing to stop this?
Eq.