excessive hard drive read activity

Thanks a lot for the help.  Since i first noticed the problem i have narrowed it down.  It happens when i close quicken.  By monitoring my resource monitor i obsereve the following when i close quicken.

1.  qw.exe memory usage starts going from 50 mb to 1.8gb at which time the memory is saturated(i have a 2gb system).

2.  At this point the hard drive goes to 100% usage mostly as svchost(local system network reststricted).

3. After about 2.5 minutes qw.exe drops out and the total memory usage goes to normal at about 30%.

4.  The hard drive keeps going at 100% for about 5 more minutes at which time the usage starts slowing down and it down to very low usage after a couple more minutes.

So i have concluded it is something to do with quicken but i cant figure that out.  I uninstalled and reinstalled and changed files and it still does the same thing. 

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That's quite strange. I'm afraid I don't know the answer.

Thanks a lot for the help.  Since i first noticed the problem i have narrowed it down.  It happens when i close quicken.  By monitoring my resource monitor i obsereve the following when i close quicken.

1.  qw.exe memory usage starts going from 50 mb to 1.8gb at which time the memory is saturated(i have a 2gb system).

2.  At this point the hard drive goes to 100% usage mostly as svchost(local system network reststricted).

3. After about 2.5 minutes qw.exe drops out and the total memory usage goes to normal at about 30%.

4.  The hard drive keeps going at 100% for about 5 more minutes at which time the usage starts slowing down and it down to very low usage after a couple more minutes.

So i have concluded it is something to do with quicken but i cant figure that out.  I uninstalled and reinstalled and changed files and it still does the same thing.

Are virus scans, or disk defragmentations scheduled? To find out open your AV and look(it differs for different programs), to find the disk defrag schedule search 'disk defragmenter' in the start menu, open the top program and you should see a schedule(to change to a time when you aren't working click 'modify schedule').

If these don't work check to see if programs(windows, office, your antivirus, java, etc.) download and install upates when you work. change those settings to the middle of the night or something. If none of this works download Malwarebytes http://malwarebytes.org/mbam.php, Panda cloud antivirus http://www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/solutions/activescan/, or Prevx http://free.prevx.com/ to make sure you don't have a virus.

Hopefully one of these will work.