Quote Originally Posted by Ao1 View Post
These entries to the physical device were generated by simply hovering the mouse over the file.... This is on a non OS drive with no AV. It doesn't happen to every file you hover over, so it's a bit random but it does appear that hovering a mouse over a file is enough on some occasions to generate a read in anticipation of the file being opened. Intelligent read ahead I guess.
Hi Ao1,

The "AcroRd..." process from Adobe is another "application" that can elicit such activity.

Some additional details along these lines can be found within the "File I/O Activity (Undercover)" presentation document available within the Documentation section of the hyperI/O web site.