Process Monitor : A fruitful experience

My Windows\Temp directory was filling with TMP files, sometimes up to several Gb per day, and I was getting worried.

I fired up Process Monitor, and chose the columns that show the path of the culprit application that was creating these temp files (filtering mainly for "create file" operation) and then kept filtering till I cornered the Windows\Temp directory.

It turned out that somehow the indexing service (most probably due to my own fault) was turned on, and my PC was indexing huge amount of data. I turned the indexing off, verified in Process Explorer that the service has been turned off, and was finally rid of the problem.

Although I have often used Autorun to solve pesky problems, but I consider today a fruitful experience, and I had to share.