Disk C: spiking to 100% after windows 10 update

[WeArentFree]

Ever since Windows 10 updated, my ssd drive C: will regularly spike to 100% causing programs to not respond for about 10 seconds. My mouse will still move but all programs will not respond for the 10 seconds. I did a total system restore yesterday and it fixed the problem. But when I shutdown the PC at the end of the night, windows updated. Voila, problem is back after windows update. I Disabled MSI controller but it has done nothing. I'm stuck at what to do and super frustrated. I have plenty of free space on the drive 90GBs free out of the 120. Help plz

 

[Mr Kagouris]

Likely Windows Flopdate™ installing things in the background as usual.

 

[WeArentFree]

Any solutions?

 

[Mr Kagouris]

Let it do the updates until it has no more updates to do. If you want this to not pop up in the future there are various "solutions" to turning automatic updates off.

To verify that it's Windows Update open up Task Manager and order the tasks by highest disk usage. It should be one of Microsoft's services that's causing this (do NOT end the task).

 

[Colif]

Flopdate?

 

[Mr Kagouris]

Flopdate?

That's what I like calling Windows Update because it's the most clever wordplay I could come up with to mock the utter failure that is the Windows 10 Update service.

 

[WeArentFree]

Was watching processes and waiting for another freeze. When it froze up and the disk usage went up, the only processes that were high on the list were system, google chrome, and service host. But they were only using like maybe a few mb/s, nothing crazy.

 

[Colif]

Fair enough, i see fair share of fails but then I realise 400 million PC got latest update and I know I haven't had to answer that many questions

A lot of people are still getting 1607 still so it depends on what update they just got as to its chance of failing. Especially if PC was already an upgrade from win 7 and hadn't had a fresh install since going onto 10.

 

[WeArentFree]

Service host local system seems to be spiking up the disk usage.

 

[Mr Kagouris]

Yeah, as suspected it's Windows Update.

 

[WeArentFree]

So is it just a waiting game then?

 

[Colif]

you can run windows update and check updates and it might speed up anything you installing. The store also uses windows update to install its apps as well, so can check updates in it as well.

 

[WeArentFree]

I found a post with someone having the same problem. All they did to solve was change the power plan to high performance. I just did that and it seems to help. Time will tell. I'll also try to check windows update.

EDIT: Windows update checker said everything is up to date.

 

[bono_john]

These symptoms are exactly the same as what I experienced. C drive will spike to 100% for about 20 seconds then just as suddenly release the load. Frustrating as hell.

 

[Colif]

That seems an odd fix, all that does is sets CPU to max speed all time, I don't know how it would effect hdd usage.

Its funny what it can fix, its also good at fixing sleep problems.

 

[WeArentFree]

bono_john, try changing power plan setting to high performance. It seems to be fixing the problem.

 

[NateDiz]

I am having this same issue since the update. about 20 seconds of 100% usage, then about 2 secs of normal, then right back up.