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I have recently upgraded my laptop from Windows 7 to Windows 8, and now 8.1. After the upgrade I observed a very high disk usage periodically (almost every day), caused by some weird TMP0000000XXXXXXXXX... (TMP000000000 followed by a bunch of string, one example is: TMP00000003673F37CC1586E0CB) files without extension in %WinDir%\Temp folder as seen from Resource Monitor, and there are about 10 of them.
I did some investigations and eventually found out that Windows Defender is actually the cause of this problem. I'm very sure about this. WD just anyhow uses up my harddisk resource even when there is no scanning activity. My laptop becomes incredibly slow, and I know it would decrease the lifespan of my HDD. When I disable it, all those weird files suddenly disappeared, and the disk usage just comes down to around 0-5% (normal percentage).
Is there any way I can stop Windows Defender from slowing down my laptop without changing the antivirus software? I know Windows Defender isn't bad, and I want to keep using it. Thanks.
PS. Actually I wanted to show you guys a picture of what the files look like, in case you don't get it, but my reputation is not enough.
Do you have any other antivirus on your system? – Matthew Williams – 2014-02-10T12:57:18.390
No. Only Windows Defender. – brillydev – 2014-02-10T12:58:29.340
Have you checked to see if it is running a scan every time you boot up? Check to see if it is running a full system scan. – Matthew Williams – 2014-02-10T13:01:11.907