Disk at 100%, System using it all

[jleon01l]

To explain the title better, I've been having some issues with the disk on my computer (that I built a few months ago) running at 100%. I just started it after having it off for the night, and it went straight up, before I had even opened anything. When I looked at the task manager list for it, it showed System being the biggest eater (until I ran an antivirus scan, then that took the spot, but System was still pretty high compared to anything else). I was wondering if someone could tell me what the heck could be happening with this, because I don't think it's supposed to be doing that... lol.

 

[jleon01l]

(For some reason wasn't able to type in edit, sorry)

I just found something saying to turn off superfetch, so I did. Can't know if it'll help until the virus scan is done though, since it's still at 100%. System still seems to be running high though, but that could just be to me, because of my lack of knowledge about it.

 

[tiderider77]

To explain the title better, I've been having some issues with the disk on my computer (that I built a few months ago) running at 100%. I just started it after having it off for the night, and it went straight up, before I had even opened anything. When I looked at the task manager list for it, it showed System being the biggest eater (until I ran an antivirus scan, then that took the spot, but System was still pretty high compared to anything else). I was wondering if someone could tell me what the heck could be happening with this, because I don't think it's supposed to be doing that... lol.

First of all, What size HD do you have in the system & is it a SSD or standard spinning platter HD? It sounds like Your Drive is not that large in volume, if this is the case I can tell you where to look & see what is using up so much of your disk resources, but I need to know the size of your HD first. Also what OS? 32 or 64 Bit?

 

[D_Know_WD]

Hi there jleon01l,

What is your OS? Depending on that, this high disk usage, could be caused by different OS services.
Apart from that, you can:
- Test your drive. Just back up the data if there's something wrong with it: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/282651-32-best-diagnostic-testing-utility
- Attach it with different cables (sometimes faulty cables could cause high disk usage) to another SATA port, that is perhaps, on another controller.

Cheers,
D_Know_WD

 

[Brandon_77]

I just got a laptop and tried everything suggested and ended up figuring out my 100% disk usage spikes on me own. I used Resource Monitor and found the out of control process, looked at the file path and saw Windows.Photo - I know Themes have bogged down performance on other OS's, so I googled how to disable them on Windows 10. Now, I unchecked them, because I don't care about it. Boom. No more spiking. Sits between 0-10% now.

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/disable-visual-effects-windows

 

[Jared_31]

I see this problem all the time with machines that upgraded to windows 10. Unindexing the HDD usually does the trick.
File Explorer--> Right click on boot drive --> Properties --> Uncheck the box at the bottom that says "Allow files on this drive to have contents indexed in addition to file properties" Usually takes about 30-45 minutes but works about %75 of the time. Write back if it works please.