Odd behavior regarding Avast Service (AvastSvc.exe)

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Lately, my hard drive has been having lots of "bad block" errors, probably due to its age being near the end of its life. Along with these errors (and some storahci warnings about sending reset signals the the HDD's port) there appears this entry in my Event Viewer:

Process C:\Program Files\AVAST Software\Avast\AvastSvc.exe (process ID:1668) reset policy scheme from {8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c} to {8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c}

This entry lists "UserModePowerService" as the source of the message with Event ID 12 and Task Category (10).

Is this normal with Avast? If so, what is it trying to do, if anything?

[Chrisis]

I have the same problem on my machine, though there is nothing wrong with my Hard drives.

What avast is doing essentially is setting the power policy to high, from high....
Does that mean it thinks it's not getting enough power/resources?

I'm also getting a lot of WHEA-logger with event ID 19.

there is also the case of a game I have CTD quite often :/

But yeah, why is Avast changing the policy?

[bob3160]

Are you using the Gaming Mode component ?

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BUMP!

I've seen this behavior for a while now. Running Windows 8.1 with Avast Free.

I have a laptop plus an external monitor. The brightness of my laptop screen goes up and down on it's own. The external monitor doesn't seem to change. The System event viewer shows this UserModePowerService event about ever two minutes. It's DRIVING ME CRAZY!!

Process C:\Program Files\AVAST Software\Avast\AvastSvc.exe (process ID:1488) reset policy scheme from {8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c} to {015ab638-9c9f-4ef5-a540-f5fb3c42df67}

Please post a fix!!