Microsoft Security Essentials - complaint

[CRXican]

Excessive, prolonged hard drive activity.

In an effort to stop it I've turned off the daily scan. Still happens. The hard drive will seek for minutes on end and I'm tired of listening to it. I've googled the issue and have found maybe one other similar complaint.

I'm ready to uninstall it just to stop hearing my hard drive "thrash" for minutes on end everyday.

 

[zerocool84]

I just installed it for the first time 2 days ago and I don't seem to have any hd thrashing.

 

[solofly]

What OS are you running?

 

[Tsavo]

What OS are you running?

OS X.

:hmm:

 

[CRXican]

What OS are you running?

Vista Home Premium 64

 

[Blazer]

i doubt its MSE causing your problem.

 

[Engineer]

I've got it on 4 PC's and one laptop and never see this. Hmmmm?

 

[coolVariable]

Switched to MSE exactly because it DOESN'T DO THIS compared to other antivir/security software which bogs the PC down.

 

[plion]

it doesn't do this either I have it installed in my desktop win7 pro x64 and on my sister's laptop win 7x64 pro both with daily scans disabled and it never does this. try reinstalling it.

 

[ImDonly1]

If it is the problem, not saying it is, why don't you try and set the scan to weekly instead and so a quick instead of a full scan. Set it to a time when you are away.

 

[Dark Penguin]

Are you sure it isn't the os indexing your drives?

 

[bobross419]

Excessive, prolonged hard drive activity.

In an effort to stop it I've turned off the daily scan. Still happens. The hard drive will seek for minutes on end and I'm tired of listening to it. I've googled the issue and have found maybe one other similar complaint.

I'm ready to uninstall it just to stop hearing my hard drive "thrash" for minutes on end everyday.

Verify that it is the application first. Uninstall and use safe browsing practices to see if this still occurs. There is a possibility it isn't MSE at all. I installed this on my HTPC without issues (XP MCE 2005) so then I installed it on my wife's computer (Vista Business 32). Neither PC have experienced anything like this.

 

[Chiefcrowe]

Never seen this issue either.

 

[CRXican]

ok, it does it's "thing" at 10:30 am, it's still going now

I have scheduled scans off and have turned off the "system restore point" option

 

[Lifted]

Did you turn your computer on in the morning? Defrag is set to run at 1AM, and if your computer is usually off at that time, it could be what's causing the disk activity in the morning. You could also start logging the disk activity if it isn't already doing that.

 

[coolVariable]

Why can't OP actually check which program is accessing his disks?

 

[Gonad the Barbarian]

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx

 

[coolVariable]

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx

Task Manager => Resource Monitor. Done.

 

[0roo0roo]

not in xp i believe

 

[TJCS]

There is no licensing or expiration concerns for MSE, why not remove it to quickly isolate your problem? I think your problem sounds more like indexing service, defraggin, or other software running in the background.

 

[CRXican]

Task Manager => Resource Monitor. Done.

System

C: \System Volume Information

and

svchost.exe(LocalSystemNetworkREstricted)

both are going insane, I know it's MSE, looks like it's scanning everything on my C drive

 

[Gunbuster]

Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service did that to my laptop. (constant HDD activity and high CPU usage)

http://social.answers.microsoft.com...e/thread/b5c79a15-781b-455a-9003-6d305695fce0

 

[daveybrat]

Weird issue. I have MSE on my pc's and installed it well over 100 times on customer's pc's and have never had that issue yet.

 

[thedosbox]

I know it's MSE, looks like it's scanning everything on my C drive

Based on what? You haven't uninstalled it to verify this is the case yet. As others have noted, this behaviour is also typical of Vista's desktop search indexing.

 

[sikkafaliahmet]

i uninstalled it. now its ok.