Hi, that was a friend posting about my computer; I will be taking over from here. I was ready to reinstall but my friend said, "Hey, let's give this site a try, " so here I am.
1) Open task manager to the processes tab. Sort on the cpu column. Which process is using the cycles?
The weird thing is is that it doesn't start writing until the monitor goes to sleep. I did just have a problem with Google Earth doing the writing but I have resolved this, at least the writing going to "C:\Users\Johnehm\AppData\LocalLow\Google\GoogleEarth\unified_cache_leveldb_leveldb2" (Around 1 gig of space - whew!)
2) Check Scheduled tasks to see if something is scheduled to run in the background.
I have 48 scheduled as "Active Tasks" in the Task Scheduler and according to the upper part of the same window none have been active in the last 30 days. How do you tell if something is supposed to run in the background or not?
3) Check your av & defrag apps to see if they are set to run on a regular basis.
Defrag every Wed at 1 am but it hasn't.
Various Comodo with multiple triggers except Cache Builder - when computer is idle.
4) Does the same thing happen in safe mode?
No, but there was only the option of my monitor going to sleep (and it didn't - set for 5 min). There were advance options but I didn't know what to choose from.
Let me also give you a little more background. The computer is a build by some local shop and it's always acted a little weird. I don't currently (pun intended) have it surge protected. About a month ago there were a couple of surges and it has been acting weirder: I have Ubuntu installed alongside. The grub file hasn't appeared in some time (when installing w7-32 from w7-64 - It behaved better with 32 bit.) when booting and after the surges it just suddenly reappeared. When new, their appeared, while booting, an option "Press any key to boot from CD or DVD" that I also haven't seen in a long time but just reappeared today - I was toggling via BIOS to boot from either and Voila, there it was again.
Maybe the BIOS is damaged too? Time to flash? Reinstall Windows?