Windows 10 100% Disk Usage...WTF?

cool_gi said:
my problem is teh setup time. to now add in a new drive is easy, but to copy and re setup the pc is a nightmare. thats one of the reasons i pulled 2 years longer on my old pc.
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I keep my life simple when it comes to PC's :p

Don't use too many apps, especially relatively unheard of ones with poor support.
Use cloud email archiving, avoid PST's.
Use OneDrive for all file storage.
Use browser sync for all my bookmarks.
Have decent Internet line.

Thus a format/reinstall is like a walk in the park. I could do it right now and be back up and running in an hour or two. Time it for the evening if there's any large downloads subsequent to setup. I know this "lifestyle" doesn't suit everybody though :) haha. But I'm lazy that way and just hate the headache otherwise. Plus I freak out if I'm too dependent on a chunk of hardware staying alive - which I know is inevitably going to bite me. Plus having low local storage requirement makes it so much cheaper/quicker.

Anyway moving HDD to SSD can also be achieved with cloning software + a SATA to USB connector. Works pretty well and is quick, keeps everything just as it was. Though I know this all costs money. (Some SSD's do come with proprietary clone software IIRC).
 
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Rabobi said:
Yes most know this. But you are proposing a radical band aid instead of finding the real problem
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The time spent finding the real problem here, which I believe is pandemic concerning Win 10 and 1TB HDD's, is probably better spent just upgrading to SSD.

In fact I don't agree that laptops should have moving components anyway except for cooling. Plus you in three years time will still be thanking you today for making the move to SSD.

Tip: Buying a mid-range laptop with after-market SSD is usually cheaper than higher tier with SSD when you really don't need the accompanying i7 CPU and so on for general office use. Also I'd sooner take SSD with 4gig RAM than HDD with 1million gig RAM :p Though SSD and 8gig RAM is a sweet spot for general productivity these days.
 
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Serene said:
Morning peoples,

My son's PC shows 100% disk usage although on Task Manager all the shows 0/mb.
I have read about the "fixes" but I did a fresh install in January.
Apps takes ages to open. I'm starting to think this is the culprit for his blackscreen/audio stutter freeze sometimes.


Just wanted to know what can cause this?
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Open registry, either find EnableSuperFetch or manually locate it at local machine>system>currentcontrsetcontrol>session manager>memory management>prefetchparameters, look for enablesuperfetch and change value to 0.
 
Looking at all the comments here I think I can help with the issue. Windows 10 these days almost always needs an ssd to run properly. Working with computers I've noticed that 5400rpm drives can't handle windows 10, while the 7200rpm ones handle it alright. If you want my suggestion is buy an adata ssd for like R400 on eve tech and use the HDD just for storing games and movies.
 
Try readyboost.
My wife has a 240gig ssd and 1tb for storage.
I have 2x500gig hdd and a 1tb hdd in raid for storage and my os is on a 250gig hdd, we both have 4th gen i5's. I've got 2 old 16 gig usb3 flash drives so i popped them in and dedicated them to readyboost.
I've had the 100% disk usage problem before but only occasionally, now i have reinstalled windows a few times since then but since using 32gig of readyboost i never had such an issue again, also my win startup times are not far from my wife's startup times with the ssd. Game load in times are better on my pc but think that's not readyboost related but more her single 1tb drive vs my 3xhdd raid setup. (it's just windows raid btw not bios as my mobo doesn't support that).
Readyboost is worth a shot in my opinion, and I'd be interested to see what the results will be.
I won't go out and buy a flash drive for ready boost, 32gig for R100 then might aswell just bite the bullet and get a 240gig ssd and your money is definitely well spent.
 
Hating the Win 10 experience. Dell i3 with 1TB HDD and its worse than an old circa 2004 HP laptop I only use for downloading from an old Psion.
 
If you google this it seems quite common. I've tried every solution under the sun and none worked. You can have two machines with identical hardware and it can happen on the one but not the other.

My folks pc developed this issue after some time, reinstalled win10 and it came back. Tried a different hdd as well. after wasting way to much time i gave up and got them a cheap 120gb ssd on special.
 
Im going to install Ubuntu (dual boot) and only boot into Win10 when I need to run one program I sometimes need.
 
Note 100% disk usage on a HDD doesn't actually mean there's a problem.
Use Resource monitor to check what is using the most over a bit of time.
 
CrazyOrbe said:
Looking at all the comments here I think I can help with the issue. Windows 10 these days almost always needs an ssd to run properly. Working with computers I've noticed that 5400rpm drives can't handle windows 10, while the 7200rpm ones handle it alright. If you want my suggestion is buy an adata ssd for like R400 on eve tech and use the HDD just for storing games and movies.
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Yeah my laptop runs fine with a 7200 drive. We recently upgraded a mashine to ssd that was dog slow with a 5400 drive.
 
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