But it has got worse and worse with every new version. And i can even point when it has started - with the V7. No this is clearly caused by a bad coding in the updater. it's not a XP fault - i have just the internet connection and the Opera browser in the autostart and i never have more than 18 processes running (15 at this moment). No, it's not a bad config, i run a bare bones install of Avast - i disabled WebRep since i've discovered that most of its flags are obsolete and if there is a threat the Web Shield will kick in, the Software Updater and 2 other shields. It uses the hdd so much that the entire OS (XP SP3 in my case) is absolutely frozen - nothing moves, nothing works (you can't even open the Task Manager). Or, to be precise, it's the updater's fault: once the boot has ended the updater starts and for some unknown reason it absolutely trashes the hdd - in, usually, over 2 minutes it manages to make more than 40,000 I/O Reads and over 20,000 I/O Writes. I have the exact same problem and i can tell you for sure that's Avast's fault.

Quote from: Aventador on May 13, 2013, 01:23:10 AM Here is a complete list for the Windows 7 Defrag Switches:

/X - Perform free space consolidation on the specified volumes./V - Print verbose output containing the fragmentation statistics./U - Print the progress of the operation on the screen./T - Track an operation already in progress on the specified volume.Attempts to consolidate only fragments smaller than 64 megabytes (MB). /R - Performs partial defragmentation (default)./M - Run the operation on each volume in parallel in the background./H - Run the operation at normal priority (default is low).

/F - Forces defragmentation of the volume when free space is low.

/E - Perform the operation on all volumes except those specified.

/C - Perform the operation on all volumes.

/B - Boot optimization to defrags the boot sector of the boot volume (ex: Windows drive).

/A - Perform analysis on the specified volumes.

Process Idle Tasks: Rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks Here is a complete list for the Windows 7 Defrag Switches:ġ.

Avast antivirus slowing down computer