Constant hard drive activity :(

Kristoph · 27 Aug 2010 at 08:42

I installed Avast an hour ago, started a scan and then it proceeded to totally freeze at around 90%. I gave it some time and eventually had to try and abort the scan, that failed, so I restarted the laptop.

As soon as it turned back on, I got constant hard drive activity. I guessed it was continuing what it was doing, and then decided to uninstall Avast.

Removed it, restarted, turn the laptop back on and I'm still getting it. I've downloaded ProcessMon and it seems to be Monitor.exe, WerCon.exe and isgfxsrvc.exe (or something like that) doing literally all the accessing / registry accessing.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

k3vst3r · 27 Aug 2010 at 08:46

windows 7? could be file indexing for faster searches

Kristoph · 27 Aug 2010 at 08:47

Running vista 64bit.

k3vst3r · 27 Aug 2010 at 08:49

Yeah vista still does file indexing too, you can disable file indexing by right clicking the HDD going to properties an clicking disable file indexing on this drive.

Kristoph · 27 Aug 2010 at 08:52

Does it make a huge amount of difference in the time taken to access things without it on?

k3vst3r · 27 Aug 2010 at 08:53

Depends on your HDD if it's fast at accessing an how much you do file searches. If you hardly file search best just turn it off.

SiriusB · 27 Aug 2010 at 14:31

By default the Indexing only does a few select folders - so there should be no constant disk access once everything is indexed. I have my whole HDD indexed and have little to no HDD activity.