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06-24-2009
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| | Re: Avast - has anyone else experienced this? Certainly a bit unusual. Do you have Avast on the Windows Vista partition too? -- Paul Smith, Yeovil, UK. Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience. http://www.dasmirnov.net/ "Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:uWHAucE9JHA.288@xxxxxx Quote: > FOOD FOR THOUGHT > > I was talking to Western Digital today and they gave me an RMA to return a > "defective" 1 gig hard drive that sounded like a garbage truck for the > past 4-5 days. I could hear the drive in the next room while watching > television. I'm glad to say I don't have to return the drive. > > Today I downloaded the beta of Microsoft Security Essentials for testing > purposes. I uninstalled Avast and installed MSE. After a reboot (I always > do this after an install) the hard drive was quiet! The drive had > previously sounded like the heads were slamming into the stops. What a > noise. I also checked my processes in Task Manager and found that one > Avast process had over 22 **BILLION** read accesses within 1/2 hour after > booting up. > > Anyway, all now seems well. I guess it was an Avast update that started my > main hard drive going spastic. > > -- > > Richard Urban > Microsoft MVP > Windows Desktop Experience > > |
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06-24-2009
| #12 (permalink) |
| | Re: Avast - has anyone else experienced this? I also have Avast on my Vista partition. The same thing is happening there, but to a lesser degree. My Windows 7 O/S is quiet now. Later today I plan to uninstall Microsoft Security Essentials and reinstall Avast on Windows 7 - just to see what transpires. I think that when it is sorted I am going to return the drive anyway (I have an RMA). All that head banging could not have been good for the internals. -- Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience "Paul Smith" <Paul@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:uewDdKN9JHA.5780@xxxxxx Quote: > Certainly a bit unusual. > > Do you have Avast on the Windows Vista partition too? > > -- > Paul Smith, > Yeovil, UK. > Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience. > http://www.dasmirnov.net/ > > "Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@xxxxxx> wrote in message > news:uWHAucE9JHA.288@xxxxxx Quote: >> FOOD FOR THOUGHT >> >> I was talking to Western Digital today and they gave me an RMA to return >> a "defective" 1 gig hard drive that sounded like a garbage truck for the >> past 4-5 days. I could hear the drive in the next room while watching >> television. I'm glad to say I don't have to return the drive. >> >> Today I downloaded the beta of Microsoft Security Essentials for testing >> purposes. I uninstalled Avast and installed MSE. After a reboot (I always >> do this after an install) the hard drive was quiet! The drive had >> previously sounded like the heads were slamming into the stops. What a >> noise. I also checked my processes in Task Manager and found that one >> Avast process had over 22 **BILLION** read accesses within 1/2 hour after >> booting up. >> >> Anyway, all now seems well. I guess it was an Avast update that started >> my main hard drive going spastic. >> >> -- >> >> Richard Urban >> Microsoft MVP >> Windows Desktop Experience >> >> |
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