Windows 7 problem, need some help

Follow above member's advices. Also, make sure that the HDD isnt much fragmented as that may cause higher disk activity as it has to search for the file parts here and there..

According to the pics you attached, you've Norton AV installed, right? As we can see, it's the culprit which is causing much write activity. Disable it's start-up scan if there's any option for it and reduce the scan's intensity/depth level to medium if it's set to higher value. It'd be more b better if you can switch to any other light AV.
Disable Indexing and Superfetch and regular defrags (as per your choice). This should reduce some load on HDD.

EzioAuditore said:

Disable Indexing and Superfetch and regular defrags (as per your choice). This should reduce some load on HDD.

I would just like to say that I do not recommend disabling any of the three. It's up to you, but I find superfetch gets everything up and running faster when I first startup Windows and even people with SSD's say they see a performance increase with superfetch on. Defrag should be left on so that you don't have to worry about your HDD becoming fragmented, which will increase HDD activity more than anything, and keep your computer running fast. Indexing I'm not as concerned about but it does speed up file searching. If you never use the search function than turn it of. If you do use it, leave indexing on.

Petey7 said:

EzioAuditore said:

Disable Indexing and Superfetch and regular defrags (as per your choice). This should reduce some load on HDD.

I would just like to say that I do not recommend disabling any of the three. It's up to you, but I find superfetch gets everything up and running faster when I first startup Windows and even people with SSD's say they see a performance increase with superfetch on. Defrag should be left on so that you don't have to worry about your HDD becoming fragmented, which will increase HDD activity more than anything, and keep your computer running fast. Indexing I'm not as concerned about but it does speed up file searching. If you never use the search function than turn it of. If you do use it, leave indexing on.

actuallyi meant the same by writing "(as per your choice)", I should have used some punctuation marks to point that out..

hfbroady said:

Actually I don't have Norton installed nor do I use it, I use CA security suite, so maybe I need to find the norton file in startup and disable it.
Thanks
Heath

You might have had it before and some files might have got left due to incomplete uninstall. Always check if there's any uninstall tool available for your AV/Security app from it's vendor before you uninstall it with built-in or any 3rd party uninstaller.

Glad you were able to sort everything out!