Hey friends
For the last few weeks, my laptop has been slow and unresponsive much of the time and is locked at 100% disk usage, even when nothing is open or running in the background. It's Dell Laptop with an i5 and 8GB of RAM, and everything else appears to be running normally, i.e. the CPU/GPU/etc are not locked at 100% or anything.
As this is a fairly common problem, I've tried the usual solutons; disabling superfetch etc has done nothing, I've done a scan for malware etc but have turned up nothing. There are no programs in the task manager that claim to be using the disk, and using the usage monitor tab shows that the programs using the disk are not consistent.
The strange thing is that my computer runs fine on startup (beyond the usual first few minutes of lag), and only locks at 100% after it's been closed/slept. In order to use my laptop I have to restart it every time I use it, and that's extremely frustrating.
I've attached two screenshots of my disk usage taken like 30 seconds apart: https://imgur.com/a/DfNldde
As you can see it's a mishmash of windows services, random programs, etc, none of which are apparently running. I'm at a loss. Anyone have any advice? Thanks!
For the last few weeks, my laptop has been slow and unresponsive much of the time and is locked at 100% disk usage, even when nothing is open or running in the background. It's Dell Laptop with an i5 and 8GB of RAM, and everything else appears to be running normally, i.e. the CPU/GPU/etc are not locked at 100% or anything.
As this is a fairly common problem, I've tried the usual solutons; disabling superfetch etc has done nothing, I've done a scan for malware etc but have turned up nothing. There are no programs in the task manager that claim to be using the disk, and using the usage monitor tab shows that the programs using the disk are not consistent.
The strange thing is that my computer runs fine on startup (beyond the usual first few minutes of lag), and only locks at 100% after it's been closed/slept. In order to use my laptop I have to restart it every time I use it, and that's extremely frustrating.
I've attached two screenshots of my disk usage taken like 30 seconds apart: https://imgur.com/a/DfNldde
As you can see it's a mishmash of windows services, random programs, etc, none of which are apparently running. I'm at a loss. Anyone have any advice? Thanks!
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