No Superfetch / No Windows Search / No Defrag Still 100% Disk Usage
Aug 11, 2015
Ok Here is the thing, I recently upgraded to windows 10 and every works find except that 100% disk usage thing.
Two programs take all the disk resources which are "System" and "Service host local system".
I literally tried everything on the internet, including disabled superfetch, prefetch, windows search services(indexing), deleted scheduled tasks(defrag), expanding virtual memory. But still, system and service host still takes disk and I cannot disable these processes from taskmanager, obviously. And its not even funny, sometimes It takes 5 minutes to open a freaking chrome browser which is just, just frustrating.
This didn't happen on my Win8 btw, only on fresh installed Win10.
Is there anyway that I can do to save my laptop from damaged disk?
I'm running windows 10 with 8GB of RAM, an Intel i5, an ASRock z77 Extreme 4 mobo, and a Radeon Sapphire 7950 HD. All of the sudden when I boot up my computer it is extremely slow and I found out that my disk usage was 100%. None of the processes in task manager show any usage that would warrant even 5% disk usage.
I looked up some guides and disabled Superfetch and Windows Search in services.msc then restarted my pc. That didn't work even though they are still disabled. I let it sit there for 10 or so minutes and the disk usage went back to normal at <5%. It turns out that if I hit the windows key or press the windows button in the bottom left it won't work and it just makes my disk usage go back up and within 15 seconds it is back to normal.
Why my disk usage is so high on startup and why the windows key won't work/makes me use 100% of my disk?
Video of windows key/button causing 100%: [URL] ....
Every time i leave my computer idle for 5 minutes, disk defragmenting starts acting up. It never did this on Windows 7, and its very annoying. This causes my fan to speed up and it stays that way until i give it some input.
I always put my computer to sleep when I'm done using it, and would rather defragment manually. I want to turn this 5 minute defragging off, but how?
For some reason whenever I open Task manager it says that 100% of my Disk is used, this can be even if all the processes add up to like 2mb or if avast! is running and using 50mb. It will say 100% Disk Usage either way.I sent my HDD back to DinoPC.com a few months ago and they said nothing was wrong with it.
I am running Windows 10 Pro. Over the last couple of days, for some reason, the OS reports 100% disk usage, even when no application is apparently running. It was quite alright a few days ago, but troublesome over the past 2 days. I had assumed it was running some background task, and would become normal, but the abnormally high disk usage persists even after the machine has been running for half an hour.
In this period, no Windows updates were installed, and only a scheduled checkpoint was created 4 days ago. If I try and restore to the checkpoint during boot, I get an error, saying the PC needs to be repaired. If I try it from the recovery option in Windows 10, it does not shut down for a restart, just keeps on the blank screen saying "Initializing restore". The entire time, according to the indication light, the disk seems busy.
I tried disabling superfetch and background intelligent transfer service, but did not work. The spike in disk usage is not specific to anything, sometimes it is the system, other times the malware service...
I do not wish to reset the laptop, as I had quite a few things installed, but I do not have the installation media for those anymore, and so would not be able to install them again after the reset.I have the installation iso for Windows 10. The laptop is Dell 17R SE 7720. I had upgraded to Windows 10 Pro almost 2 months ago, and it had been running fine.
the fact that in the Task manager Disk usage leaps up to 100%, and stays there for minutes with nothing in the column showing above 0.1MB/s. I have visited many forums and tried many fixes but have not cured the problem. The machine is am HP G62 laptop with an i3 processor and 3GB of RAM, which should cope, shouldn't it? Currently CPU 1%, memory 42%, Disk 100% - trying to install a program.
I upgraded to Windows 10 a few months ago. Immediately I began experiencing very long start times (~5 minutes). I resolved the start time issues by doing a clean install and erasing all programs/files on my PC. After that, the 100% disk usage issues continued. I have disabled Windows tips, disabled SuperFetch & PreFetch, and attempted to monitor exactly what is causing this without success. Looking through solutions, it seems that I have gone through all suggested actions yet the issue persists. My PC can be booted for an hour with only Edge running and yet disk usage continues at 100%. Running on 8.1, I never experienced any slow start times or any slow usage.
Processor: AMD A8-3520M APU Radeon HD Graphics 1.6 GHz RAM: 6GB OS: Windows 10 64-bit
For the past week or so I have been having strange stutters and hangs. When it started my RAM was maxing out constantly in task manager. Opening Skype or hitting the windows key would basically completely freeze my computer (this was when I had windows 8.1 a week or so ago). I tried a bunch of things as well as upgrading to windows 10 since I figured it could have been a faulty update or something. After messing around with virtual memory for a while that seemed to fix the ram issue.
Now my disk usage is maxing out constantly at very small usage with the same symptoms of Skype freezing my computer and and windows menus being slow. The things increasing disk usage are all around .1MB/s. I have ran Disk Sentinel as well as defragmenting my hard drive, to no avail. Disk Sentinel says that the drive is 52% (Healthy) so I don't think it is a faulty drive, but it could be. I don't know why these issues are occurring as my computer is pretty beefy, albeit with a rather slow hard drive speed.
This morning my girlfriend woke up and loaded up her PC after an Automatic Windows update last night. She noticed that it was extremely slow and almost unresponsive in some cases.Upon checking the task manager we noticed 100% Disk usage on the Performance Monitor. We've tried a few things suggested in some Windows support threads but nothing seems to be working so far.
Solutions tried so far:
- Disabling Prefetch Resources in Chrome and Allowed Write permissions on Skype (Apparently there was an issue with these clashing?) - Setting the system Page File manually, this didn't work on manual setting or Automatic.
It's been suggested in some Microsoft support threads that Win10 is too much for older systems and hard drives, any truth in this? We've noticed now that after a short time the Disk usage drops to around 60% and then slowly raises back to 100% again.We attempted to troubleshoot any startup programs so went to the task manager to turn everything off for a startup (msconfig doesnt work on win10 it seems), and suddenly her Disk usage dropped back to 0-3%. Honestly don't know whats going on. Didn't think disabling startup programs would change anything until a restart.Went back to 100% Disk usage after about 4-5mins of 0-3%.
I have had an HP Envy dv6 running Windows 8 for two years, Windows 10 for a week or two. The past two months, my computer has been running so sluggish that it's almost inoperable. Startup time has went from 5-8 minutes to 20, sometimes even 40 minutes. When it does load up to login, it takes an additional 20 minutes for me to even load up task manager.
My disk is constantly running at 100%, despite everything running at 0mb/s consistently. The things that go above that are the system, which will spike to 2.2mb/s, norton/Symantec framework which will hover at 0.2 at most, and a bunch of service host:local services (network) processes. HP support, and a bunch of other system background services also run at 0.1mb/s.
I've done a system reboot, which barely worked. I upgraded to 10, which worked for the first two times turning on, but soon went right back to being unresponsive. I've taken a lot of processes out of startup as well. I was unable to stop indexing services when I was on windows 8, despite running as admin.
So I have recently had my Windows 10 laptop take longer than usual to boot up. When everything finally loads up, I check the disk used and it's always at 95-100% for about ten minutes, even though no particular program/process is running high. I've tried a couple recommended tricks (uncheck tips about Windows, disabled superfetch, turn off cloud-based protection in defender) and nothing as worked thus far. The computer itself is less than a year old, and I have plenty of hard drive space and RAM. I've scanned for disk errors, I've done a disk clean-up - and nothing has worked.
My computer will spike up to 100% disk usage at random, rare times. It always happens upon startup though and it makes my computer go to a snails pace when I'm getting everything launched up. I used Windows 10, I've disabled Superfetch, Windows Defender etc. but it only seemed to make the spikes slightly less frequent. The spikes sometimes stay for an extended amount of time, even as I'm typing this, my Task Manager says disk usage is on 99% and my computer started up about 10 minutes ago.
I need diagnosing why my system disk is running at 100% without anything actually running.
My Anti Virus is not doing anything, windows update is not doing anything, and my disk is not defraging.
I would have never noticed this happening if it wasn't for long load times and reduced FPS in anything 3D. My mouse and keyboard even are lagging and hanging.
My system disk is at 100% and a constant write speed of 1-2 MB/s and a constant read speed of about 200KB/s.
How to diagnose what is using my disk 100% of the time?
Since I upgraded to Windows 10 from Windows 8.1 (who knows when, within the week of first release) I've had a plethora of issues, and recently I found the source of the problem. My computer spikes to 100% disk usage randomly, even with nothing open and will suspend all applications on the computer. A couple of random things can set it off (sometimes when I open the "Search the web and Windows", open an application, Ctrl+Alt+Del, and ALWAYS when I boot my computer)
I've tried every. single. thing. that I have seen on the internet including but not limited to: superfetch, registry stuff, Unistack thing in task manager, Windows defender, uninstalling programs, defragmenting my 1TB Western Digital HDD even though it says 0% fragmented, cleaning up my HDD, checking if my HDD died which it hasn't, and updating my drivers, stopping all startup programs, disabling unused Windows apps, though nothing has seemed to fix the problem permanently. I also used to get this "Display driver AMD has stopped responding but has recovered" though I edited something in the registry and it doesn't show this anymore but I still experience the same problem. I'm quite fed up with this, and I'm thinking about buying Windows 7 in an attempt to downgrade.
For some reason, my disk, when i open my computer and at some other point, always spikes up to 100% for a few minutes.
This happens when :
at the start, Something called System and compressed memory always make my pc go to 100% disk usage. Later on, there are all those Service Host going up to 100% and something called RzStatsManager
When i open norton or when i download something new it also goes to 100%, each time I open google chrome too and Steam make the disk go to 100% at the start and every time i open it it goes to 20% and the system memory goes to 80%...
All these times, the disk spiked at 100% for a few minutes.
I disabled all my notification, each time i open my PC i disable Windows search and superfetch but it spikes up every time. What can I do?
I have this issue where windows seems to hang/get stuck every 5 to 10 seconds for about 2 seconds, like right now while I am typing. I type the words and about three words types out and then hangs for 2 seconds and the rest I typed while stuck gets lost and I have to backspace and restart again.... Same happens with mouse clicks, sometimes when I click it does not register (I presume it is right in that 2 sec delay sweet spot) but the mouse cursor movement is smooth and does not get stuck.
SO I checked my Task Manager and found that RAM,CPU and Network are all low in the 10% - 20%, but my HDD Runs at like 80% -100% all the time. See Screenshots of Task Manager and Resource monitor. The disk keeps getting used full load every 5 to 10 sec.
I have tried disabling Disk Defragment service in the Task Scheduler and several other tips I found on the net but no luck.
I'm having a problem where the system is constantly at 100%. Sometimes it goes down, but it keeps going back up to 100%. This is build 10162.How to stop this from occurring? Generally, the service MsMpEng.exe or ntoskrnl.exe which is System are at the top of the list.
I upgraded to windows 10 when it came out.. however many months ago it came out.. 3? I was running this "WD Black 3TB Performance Desktop Hard Disk Drive - 7200 RPM SATA 6 Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5 Inch - WD3003FZEX" (copied directly off amazon) for about a year before that. But soon after upgrading to 10 I've been suffering from huge amounts of disk usage. 100% at just 12mb/s PC takes forever to boot and ages to load/transfer things. I've just lived with it for a while.
Anyway. I was reluctant to start anew on a new HDD. So I bought another of the same model.. asuming it had just pooped out. As it runs pretty hot. Hotter than I'm used to a HDD getting. But this new one runs hot right of the box as well. After cloning my system onto the new one I have the exact same issue. I no longer think its hardware related. Is there any way out of this without starting formatting and starting all over?
I'll mention I ran a fresh install of windows on the new HDD before cloning onto it. Ran fine then. And I dunno if its relevant or not but since this problem began my audio will sometimes cut out for several seconds before popping back on.
I started experiencing this after my brother installed some malware on my pc while playing CS GO. I have removed all the malware i could find and have ran memory and disk tests which have shown me nothing but positive results, but when i run furmark the disk usage climbs to 100%. I also have noticed my nothbridge overheating which might be the issue. I also have a shady 600W psu that needs changing because it is old and I don't trust it.
I have
CPU: intel i5 3330 GPU: Nvidia gforce gtx680 refrence RAM: 8GB kingston value ram PSU: 600W super cheap generic psu that came with the case HDD: wdc wd5000aakx-001ca0 500GB that needs changing MOBO: msi MSI H61MA-E35 (B3)
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Edit:I found out the reason for my hdd stopping while under load was that one of my 6 pins was a 2molex to 6pin adapter and one of the molex cables was also the one powering my hdd through a sata power cable.So i plugged in a different one and now it's fine.
I've had this problem where my disk usage would spike to 100% before going back down to like 2%. I looked at countless forum posts and different sites and I found something which was a temporary fix, which was turning off tips about windows...
That worked for a while, and it just makes the intervals in-between the spikes longer, and now my memory has started to spike pretty high to about 99%, and wont come back down. When it does this I have to do a hard shut down as my pc just slows to unusable...
I also tried disabling ndu.sys in the registry, which didn't work either.
I just upgraded to TH2 from Win 10 Pro. I noticed that my disk usage is near 99% for the past 20 mins. It keeps fluctuatiing between 10 to 99. Normally my disk usage stays at 0. May be this might be Windows settling in after the upgrade? There was high disk usage the first time around when i upgraded from Win7.
I'm currently on a PC with a 250GB SSD (Samsung EVO850 M.2). Recently my PC suddenly was out of storage and I wondered why, since I though I still had at least half of the storage free.
So I decided to run WinDirStat to figure out which directories were taking up all the space. As you can see in the screenshot it shows completely different values for the used space by the C drive. For your info, I only have a C drive, no second disk or second partition.
