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I rather suspect sysinternals etc aren't going to be of much help here... it may not even be something we can turn off, even if we do find it.
So far I've:
systematically disabled and renabled servicesI don't necessarily expect the thing to sit totally dormant when not in sleep mode, but the amount of activity is worrisome... Some have suggested it would calm down after a couple of days... 2 weeks later it's still as busy as it was the first hour.
disabled and re-enabled windows search (that makes a difference)
disabled and renabled scheduled tasks
tinkered with 3rd party drivers even when the Win7 ones worked fine
messed with CD autorun and Shell hardware detection
disabled and renabled entire subsystems (Windows audio etc.)
even tried uninstalling my disk drives (boy did it complain about that!)
The Aspire concerns me for the effect on battery life. I used to get about 90 minutes out of the 2200mah battery pack and about 4 hours from the 7200... now it's down to something like 60 minutes and 3 hours.
But it's the ASRock that worries me the most. It's on 24/7 as a music/movie server that is used throughout the house. It's busy all hours of day and night as one of the kids is on shift work... It's also used for most of our downloading since we can send files there to be shared with the whole family.... It's not so easy to turn off. The only grace in that situation is that the drive LED isn't very bright. (The entire room lights up with the LED from the desktop.)
I don't know if this is harmful or not but I can definately hear the HTPC's 500g drive doing long steps once a second... and that's abnormal even when playing movie files.
I dunno... maybe it's much ado about nothing, I like Win 7 in other respects, but this one is just stuck in the old craw....