Acer hard drive overactive

garfox

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I am running an older Acer laptop Aspire 5610Z with 1 GB memory. Originally had Vista - Installed Win 7 home premium clean. With Vista before and now with Win7 the hard drive stays heavily active for about 25-30 minutes after any startup or reboot or after waking from sleep mode. The drive is so active that the computer is hardly usable with delays of approx. 15-20 seconds after each kb or mouse input. After the 25 to 30 minutes the drive stops unusual activity and the computer functions normally (until it is shutdown or sleeps again)
Any idea how to diagnose what is causing this activity?
Thanks
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Thanks for your answer - I thought since it would run my Microsoft Flight Sim OK that memory was sufficient. How may I find information about paging? Would this pic bear that out?
Physical Memory (MB)
Total 1014
Cached 173
Available 170
Free 2

Kernel Memory (MB)
Paged 173
Nonpaged 34