The partition which my installation of Windows XP resides on is slowly filling up 
from when I boot. When I first boot into the OS I have 7.4 GB of free space however, 
over time (the space of an hour or so) this gradually decreases until the partition 
is full and things start getting messy with everything slowing down. 

The strange part is that I cannot work out what is doing this. I've closed all programs 
(incuding firewalls etc.) and ended all unecessary processes but the ptoblem persists. 
I've even used Sysinternals File Monitor to keep and eye on what processes are doing 
what but this reports no writes occuring just rudimentary requests from the likes 
of explorer. I've performed a full virus scan too which has returned absolutely nothing. 
Furthermore, none of the applications I have installed are installed on this drive 
and to add more mystery, folders do not accumulate memory on the suspect drive. That 
is to say if I highlight all of the folders on this drive (config.msi, docs & settings, 
program files, windows, recycler, system volume information) and view the properties 
for these, the size value (2.95 GB) of these does not represent the corresponding 
value of the drive (5.77 currently and counting...). 

Its got me bushed, can anyone suggest what might be doing this or anything else I 
can try? Perhaps a diak utility that will log writes? I've been using Sysinternals 
Disk Monitor but this doesn't really give much info away.

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