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No problem. I enjoy it :)
The driver is the "engine" of the AV solution. Those services and apps that are easily disabled and stopped by the user are just the configuration utilities. That is widely misunderstood. You don't have to go far to see examples of people argumentatively comparing the "resources used" by their favourite AV utilities, when in fact all they're doing is comparing the footprint of one pretty UI configuration utility against another... and completely missing the driver behemoth which does all the work.
That's why I mentioned that only a full uninstall of the AV utility is a reliable test of its involvement in any given problem - it's necessary to unsplice the driver from the I/O stack and to remove it completely. That's what an uninstall is meant to accomplish.
Up to you of course. I still reckon it would be better to uninstall Kaspersky and to see what problems remain after that. I may be able to suggest more detailed and targeted logging for the smaller hourly issues, but I don't want to do that while there's this massive DPC thing staring us in the face.