Windows 7 excessive hard activity

I disabled or made them delayed start in services.msc
Full scan of malwarebytes shows no malware.
I've got a quite simple start up. apart from mandatory things, synoptic driver, java and avast.

I use avast 6 beta free edition.
I've got the same problem in vista. ntfslog was the cause of that but here in 7 I can't find any reason. Is there any chance of hard disk problem?

That's no good. As to the hard disk issue, let's cover that next.

Beta is just that. It could be scanning even when you told it not to. Beta is not for use if you can't accept there will be problems.

Since this is the only protection the machine has (I asked and this is your answer) I'd take Grif's advice at http://forums.cnet.com/7726-19411_102-5070551.html?tag=posts;msg5070551 to get second opinions.

-> About the HDD. Why do you suspect that? Is it old, not passing HDD tests? Maybe it's cluttered? The story is incomplete here. Without the full story of the upgrade it could be some missing driver or Intel's Rapid Storage manager is needed. I can't tell if you finished the Windows 7 upgrade by going to acer and installing the drivers they provide for this machine and Windows 7.

That's a lot to digest so give it time.
Bob

Maybe you're proving that the beta of Avast six still has problems. That's what beta's are for, having them checked by real-life customers. If the same problem doesn't occur with the currently released Avast 5, I'm sure Avast will be very interested to hear your problems so they can correct them in the final release.

I love those people that test new software risking a malfunctioning machine or even having to reset it to factory settings. Thank you very much. If the product is stable, thanks to volunteers like you, I'll gladly download it to replace Avast 5 (which I'm happy with).

Kees

Thanks for answers. My drivers are up to date so I'm going to test my hard drive and check if avast is behind all malfunctions.

Not what some call a driver and can affect machines in a way to run poorly without it. And how do you know the drivers are up to date? Some try that Microsoft Update Driver which has proved to be "not so good."
Bob

Intel's Rapid Storage Technology.

Have a look at this extended discussion I had with Bob and others about my own hard drive problems and installing Intel's RST in this recent discussion here;
http://forums.cnet.com/7723-19411_102-515717.html?tag=threadListing;forum-threads

You can see the hoops I had to go through to get this right.

Mark

indexing is disabled.The odd thing is first boot in windows 7 always has a lot of hdd activity and it's unusable but if i turn off the laptop with power button and switch it on again windows will run smoothly. any idea for this?

Another area in windows that can cause a lot of HD activity is prefetch/superfetch.

Use google to get a description of what each does.

As a test disable the superfetch service......I think that stops both.

There is a reg method to do this by setting them both to a value of Zero....use google.

Superfetch service was in delayed start by default but I disabled it as first troubleshooting way, no luck.

Control panel>action center>security.

Av/anti spy/firewall should show only "one" item in each.