Senko

Hey again Dave,

I did reinstall AVG after uninstalling it.

So, I've been kinda struggling with a defrag as I had a huge lack of space, and even tho I cleared up 20% availability, it didn't seem sufficient. I've been running diskeeper over and over now and it seems to get similar symptoms as AVG, as when Diskeeper gets to certain files (such as ntdll.dll ), I'll experiance these freeze ups for 4-5 seconds a few times, but the computer actually recovers from this when it goes on to defrag the next file.

At 1st, I thought these slow downs were caused by high reso textures that I had installed for Half Life 2, as everytime Diskeeper got to there, it started slowing down, a LOT, so I thought 'ah screw it' and deleted my entire Valve folder which was about 30 gigs and counting.

So, that's when I noticed that Diskeeper was actually slowing down(freezing) to a lot similar files as AVG was getting frozen on too

Well, in any case, I'll keep the defrags running, even tho ntdll.dll has been moved all over the place it still seems to cause system instability, I'm at 45% free C:/ space, but half my disc still shows up as 'Low performance' files and folders, will have to work on that !

I'll report back here when my Performance map shows me in the green.

Regards,
Senko

EDIT :

After having such a strong feeling that AVG was somewhat to blame for these freeze-ups, I uninstalled it to perform a quick test, but, you were right, AVG holds no blame, after uninstalling, if I were to click onto Ntdll.dll, I would have this endless loop of freezes for 4-5 seconds, even tho the computer unfreezes for 10 seconds after that, I'm totally unable to do anything, no taskmanager, no nothing.

I was trying to speed up things by hopefully removing these freeze-ups during the defrag as they severly affect the ammount of time it takes, guess I'll just have to be more patient at keep at it, will report back soon.