Hello Saknussem,
Greetings all!
First post here. I am getting more and more worried. AVG seems to be responsible for a vast amount of resource grabbing. I took a screenshot of what's going on, and posted it to my FB account. Here is the link to that pic:
http://tinyurl.com/8a5u6po
As you can see, AVG and its attendant programs are using an insane number of I/O reads, writes, and I really would like them to stop. A friend suggested uninstalling AVG 9 and installing 8.5. Oh, I am using Windows 7, 64bit, have a 3.4Ghz processor with 8 gb of RAM. I don't know how much of that is essential, but I figure it's better to have too much detail here than too little.
Thank you very much for any and all help. I really appreciate it, as I am pretty desperate. Ciao!

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