Avast and DiskLED

[Gianluca 68]

Hi all

Since many years I use DiskLED, a free application that makes blinking a green "light" in the task bar indicating HDD activity. It is useful to know if HDD is busy intensively. Also with a SSD it is useful to know if something is reading or writing intensively. In laptop computers now there is no more a HDD LED.

The problem is that Avast very often (seconds or sometime minutes) blocks access to information about HDD activity and the green light stops working.
I've put C:\Program Files\DiskLED\*.* in exceptions, but it doesn't work...

Why?... How can I solve the problem?

Thanks
Gianluca

[igor]

What makes you think it's Avast that's blocking the requests? Do you get any notifications from Avast?

[Gianluca 68]

If I close Avast, DiskLED works.

[igor]

Close how? Stopping a specific shield?

[Gianluca 68]

When I tried some weeks ago, Avast was different... I remember I set "Deactivate Avast for 1 hour" or something similar.

[Gianluca 68]

Now DiskLED works if I set File protection OFF (analyze files added or opened on the PC).

N.B.: My Avast is in Italian language, then the menu names I wrote here are translated in English by me.

A confirmation comes from the fact that DiskLED works on three other PC's without Avast.

[igor]

No, the exclusions should be applied immediately. Plus, unless you're getting a [false positive] detection on a file, the exclusion shouldn't really matter... weird.