Question system.exe - 100% Disk usage

[MeltedIce]

hello, I have windows 10 and I keep getting 100% Disk usage from system.exe each time I open or close a program, depends on how laggy the program is.
When I login to my computer it's very slow and laggy and it takes a very long time to load everything including the antivirus.

I have tried disabling superfetch, windows search and diagtrack.
I tried to a chkdsk.
I tried using Disk defragmenter.
I tried updating windows
I tried updating all drivers.

just nothing worked to me.

please help, thanks.

 

[Obakasama]

While I wouldn't advocate it as a solution I had similar issues with my laptop with 100% disk usage. In the end, after a few months of searching for a solution (the same things you mentioned), I ended up having to fresh install Windows. Hasn't been an issue since. Might be something in Windows corrupted.

 

[mdd1963]

Perhaps your drive is actually beginning to fail, requiring 2-3 attempts to read/retrieve the data

(Check CrystalDiskINfo looking for failed/pending failure/reallocation sectors, etc.. (general consensus is, more than 1, and your spinning drive is likely headed downhill..sometimes faster than we'd like, and sometimes instantly/catastrophically)

Gather your needed drivers ahead of time from mainboard/laptop manufacturer...

Download the latest Win10 media creation tool straight from MS, and prepare a USB flash drive to get the installer...

Reinstalling will cure a simple glitch, but, if your drive is actually failing, these problems will likely susbsist, or even worsen...

(SInce having to do everything fresh anyway, good time to slap in a 500/1000 GB SSD (Crucial MX500 models are very reasonably priced these days, with even 1 TB only costing about $110)

 

[popatim]

If checking SMART doesn't reveal anything then Link us to a screen shot of the Resource monitor's Disk tab please.

 

[MeltedIce]

https://imgur.com/a/lEE6wiB

View: https://imgur.com/a/lEE6wiB

sorry if its inverted, that's my computer language.

 

[SkyNetRising]

0% disk activity in that screenshot.
Wait until you get 100% and order by column Total (Disk Activity section) before making the screenshot.

 

[MeltedIce]

Even if it's 100% on task manager it doesn't show it on Resource monitor.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Anyway - general recommendation is to upgrade to SSD.

 

[popatim]

Have you run a SMART check on that drive? Something like CrystalDiskInfo and link us to a screen shot of the SMART screen.
It's sounding like the HDD is having issues, such as bad sectors.