After resuming from standby or hibernate, the PC keeps accessing the harddrive for minutes. If looks like Avast is responsible for this - after disabling Avast, this problem is gone...
Yes, avast! is responsible for it, specifically the File System Shield. You'll notice this happens when you turn on your PC or when it resumes from standby/hibernation.
What is Avast doing here with its hard drive scan after every resume from standby/hibernate?
How can I disable this, because sometimes my PC is blocked for minutes thanks to this constand hard disk access.
What is avast! doing, you ask? The File System Shield is the main part of avast!'s real-time scanner, and it scans every file/program/process on your computer as they start running (i.e. when you log on after starting up your computer, or when it resumes activity). avast! does this to detect viruses and prevent them from running at startup.
Also, each time I reboot, ashServ.exe runs at 1-3% of my fast cpu, spins its little icon, and busy's the hard drive for 3-4 minutes. I assume Avast is scanning some files - but what files? Since rebooting 10 minutes ago, Avast shows that it has scanned over 3,000 files. On the Standard Shield, the slider is set to "normal".
For the most part, avast! is scanning necessary Windows files, things needed during startup, explorer.exe and other system processes. It also scans every other non-essential process that runs during startup, perhaps an instant messaging client or what have you. If you click the avast! icon on the toolbar and go to "File System Shield" under "Real-Time Shields" it will even tell you what the last file was it scanned along with a timeline of files scanned in the past few (I don't know how many) minutes.
(Also: I'm guessing by "Standard Shield" you mean "File System Shield".
(Also: Yay my first post!)