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    [SOLVED] ntoskrnl.exe High Disk Usage

    Found some free time to see how the computer runs, and now it's only doing the "100% disk usage" when I do something like open a new web page, open a file (of any type, really), etc., before immediately going back down to ~1-5%, so it seems like the Powershell/SFC must have fixed something. I'll...
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    [SOLVED] ntoskrnl.exe High Disk Usage

    Using the Process Explorer, it shows that Firefox uses a lot of memory/RAM (I knew that, as Mozilla made it to where Firefox has multiple instances open). I have 112 GB of free space. I'll try clean booting and seeing if any services cause the problem tomorrow.
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    [SOLVED] ntoskrnl.exe High Disk Usage

    Sorry for not replying yesterday, defragging took about 6 hours (7 passes). I don't think I've ever defragged before. I did the Powershell/SFC bit, and everything went smoothly (all files fixed). Will check out the Process Explorer later as I'm busy ATM, but my laptop is running a tiny bit...
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    [SOLVED] ntoskrnl.exe High Disk Usage

    My laptop runs for a short while (~30 minutes) after booting without much of a problem, but shortly after begins running hard and its fan goes into overdrive when I'm watching a video, I open a file (anything), etc. When I check task manager, the "disk" usage is always at least above 95%. After...