Process does I/O, shows up on Disk Activity within Resource Monitor as System process

I've written some software that performs a significant amount of file I/O. What is odd is that on Resource Monitor, I see the large amount of I/O being read/written to the files my process is writing --- except the process that is indicated under
Disk Activity is the System process, not my process. My code is standard C++ (no direct calls to the Windows API), console mode. Can anyone explain why this occurs? Is this some artifact of console mode programs that I am stuck with? Thanks.

Hi all, am intending to do some editing on me and my gf's pictures, and I need to assure her that it's not going to go onto the internet (she's extremely private).
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