what else can be causing high disk utilasation

Jet-Fighter7700

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Hi Guys,

so interesting issue I came across today,

lenovo v510 laptop ,
12GB RAm
1TB HDD
core i5 7th gen

running win 10 Pro,

constantly running 100% on disk usage, on taskmanager, system.
did ALL of these things, including the little known StorAHCI.sys driver fix, that involved digging inside the registry to fix something else,
https://www.drivereasy.com/knowledg...manager-improve-pc-performance-on-windows-10/

hard drive checks out with HDD tune and victoria, so not damaged in any way, (old school platter).
disabled the tasks mentioned in the article, ran checkdisk

one odd thing I noticed, updates were paused, unpaused them,
let it download an immediately Disk utilization went down.

finished, restarted, still 100% constantly,
checked again for updates loads a lenovo firmware constantly, but after a restart goes back up to 100% once again.

noticed this user using a cracked version of office 2010, cracked with autoKMS, not mine:crylaugh:
will load a different version for them anyway,

but

what else should I try?, besides linux mint 18 cinnamon:p
 
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Shadow Copy (also known as Volume Snapshot Service, Volume Shadow Copy Service or VSS, had this **** running and utilization maxed out.
 
Jet-Fighter7700

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Nate3268 said:
Shadow Copy (also known as Volume Snapshot Service, Volume Shadow Copy Service or VSS, had this **** running and utilization maxed out.
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did disable windows search,superfetch as well as something else

what is that service called? should I disable that as well?
 
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eg2505 said:
how did you know? yes it is installed actually....
is disabled until reboot....
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Esnt something like that.

Drives your disk to 100% but doesn't show in task manager.

Uninstall eset and you'll see the problem is gone, I wasn't able to identify where the incompatibility is.

So one of our machines now run non eset AV whilst the others are still on eset without issue.
 
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In some cases, it's Eset's services. In others, it's Windows Defender's scanning service. I've even seen a faulty SATA port cause this.

Since the laptop is new, likely already on C.U. and likely not faulty hardware-wise, I'd try use Disk Clean-up to remove any leftover files from previous upgrades, and clear out the C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download folder. The OS might be trying to unpack a download that's been corrupted, causing 100% disk utilisation.

If that helps nothing, come back and tell us.
 
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Any chance you have MS Update KB4041676 installed? That causes 100% disk utilization, came out on the 10th
 
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irBosOtter said:
Any chance you have MS Update KB4041676 installed? That causes 100% disk utilization, came out on the 10th
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yes, in actual fact I do have that installed, lets see if an uninstall helps,
did run disk cleanup, didnt find anything, practically Brand New PC just delivered.....
 
Jet-Fighter7700

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Slootvreter said:
Must be Microsoft mining Bitcoin!!!!
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would not be surprised one little bit with that......
I mean multiply by all the PC's running win 10 in the world, I sure its not a fluke.....

maybe if they see you constantly connected to the internet, and always on, with few firewalls,
switches it into "BTC" mining mode.....
 
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Had issue with eset and 100% disk usage, had to remove it and it was a painful experience to uninstall it, took ages.
 
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eg2505 said:
would not be surprised one little bit with that......
I mean multiply by all the PC's running win 10 in the world, I sure its not a fluke.....

maybe if they see you constantly connected to the internet, and always on, with few firewalls,
switches it into "BTC" mining mode.....
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Right. Ok.
 
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