ColinW

Thanks for the input Chris, very helpful. See my reply to HKM - I've got RTP on and my inactive/Linux drives excluded - and everything is sweet, hardly any disk bashing at all. Colin

No. I was lucky enough to spend my hard-earned on the latest and greast of the time - Vista!! If I bought every upgrade Microsoft churned out to resolve poor coding issues I'd be a very poor man. I'm pretty happy now having seen Chris's reply as well. I leave RTP on and exclude all the drives I don't use in settings and…

Thanks for your input HKM. I've now done the same, ie turned off auto scan on main panel. The Help screen does say: "With Auto Scan turned on, there is hardly any need to manually run scans for malware. Auto Scan will scan your computer over and over again, taking appropriate actions when malware is detected. Auto Scan…

I have exactly the same problem. I was forced to upgrade to IS2012 when my 2-year 2010 licence expired! I now have vsserv.exe thrashing away at my disks almost constantly. It's easy to see - just look at the disks in Resource Monitor (under Task Manager / Pefromance). I actually already had the scan option customised and…

I upgraded to IS 2012 from IS 2011 yesterday. I've noticed that vsserv is hammering the internal SSD disk with reads at about 7Mbps when Auto Scan is turned on. There are about 100 vsservs threads active, reading many files. CPU usage is <10% total, with one core very high. I had previously done a manual full system scan,…