I've used limewire for quite a while now and i noticed that whenever i start limewire, my hard drive starts to grind due to lots of disk activity. This results in my whole computer grinding to a slow, unresponsive pile of poo. This may continue for up to a minute, it then stops for a short while (maybe a minute or 2) before starting again. If i close limewire, the problem disappears. This started to occur quite a while ago and i've just got round to reporting it and i have done several updates of Limewire in the mean time.

I have Avast antivirus 4.7 installed and up to date, Zone Alarm Pro 6.5.722, Win XP Pro SP2, and P4 CPU with 512Mb Ram. I have run disk cleanup, defragmented my drives, run virus scans etc - all seem ok.

Has anyone else had a similar problem or have any suggestions on how to locate the problem?

Cheers
Nathan