I've been having this weird issue where files would take forever to load when using certain programs, but fine with others. 7zip would need several seconds to open a file that windows explorer would open instantly, same with Irfanview and images and VLC and videos. Exe files also loaded much slower than they should've. I did a wide variety of attempted fixes, which you can read about here
http://www.tenforums.com/performance-maintenance/16099-hard-drive-speed-plummets-no-reason.htmlbut nothing really showed much improvement until I tried disabling the avast shields...and then everything worked perfectly. Files loaded right away, everything was acting as it should. I uninstalled and reinstalled avast, and was able to recreate the issues perfectly. Avast shields on, everything loads slow...Avast shields off, everything runs great.
Has anyone else had this issue yet? I'm running Windows 10. The last thing I'll try is reinstalling Avast to a new drive, but if that doesn't work, I'll try a different Antivirus and see if that fixes the issue. I really do like Avast though, and want to keep using it...but the loading speeds just become unbearably slow. Still, once the program is loaded, it works just fine...but still.