Constant Disk Access Windows 7 Home

[DorsetDude]

Hi all

Ive just uninstalled AVG anti virus as I thought it was constantly thrashing my disk. It has made no difference. :bang:
I have now installed Avast as a replacement.
Anyway, my disk seems to be thrashed solidly for about 10 minutes after I log in. I'm going deaf in my left ear!
I have attached a shot from resource monitor of it all.
Does anyone know what I can do to stop it constantly thrashing?
All I had open was a firefox browser on google home page.

My details are: Windows 7 Home premium 64 bit, 4GB Memory, Processor is Athlon II X4 640 (3.00 GHz)

Is the memory a bit lacking? What does the blue line on the graph mean? Looks like its maxing out anyway. Any help to get it to stop doing it most welcomed.

Its now sitting there not thrashing at all, like I say after about 1/4 of an hour.

Thanks all

 

[Robert Arndt]

I would recommend, Microsoft security essentials, it is free and does not slow down your computer. It's a great virus/malware program. You could get it from Microsoft.com.

Arndts Photography, Lucas, Texas.

 

[Robert Arndt]

Oh and the blue line stands for highest CPU usage per x amount of time.
Again get rid of avg which I believe you have , and get rid of avag,

MSE is the anti virus program to use

Arndts Photography, Lucas, Texas.

 

[neil_g]

I doubt its avant thrashing the disk, more likely to be search indexing or auto defrag.

Is it a reasonably new machine and/or have you dumped a load of data on it recentry?

 

[clownfish]

I had the same problem with Vista. Constant disk thrashing for 10 minutes and then just lots of disk activity. This was even when the machine was doing nothing.
The thing that cured it for me was disabling the Superfetch service. This may have its downside under certain circumstances but you can easily turn it back on.

 

[DorsetDude]

Sorry for the late reply guys.

Microsoft SE sounds a plan. thanks.

It is fairly new, about 2 or 3 months old. No masses of data dumped.

I will look for the superfetch service. Perhaps I can turn it off in Soluto or set it to delayed start or something.

Thanks all. Will swap to MSE

 

[neil_g]

id stick with avast to be honest, MSE although good normally it has let that recent fake anti-malware trojan through on a few machines ive seen.

 

[DorsetDude]

id stick with avast to be honest, MSE although good normally it has let that recent fake anti-malware trojan through on a few machines ive seen.

Ok, less work for me