Windows 10 Task Manager's Disk Usage at 100%

[Justworkdamnit]

So my laptop, HP envy M7-n101dx, has been having a problem with lag and everything seems to start up slow and take forever to load, ESPECIALLY window's Powershell and starting commands in it. The disk usage will spike from 0-1% all the way from 50-100%+ on 0.1 mbs of use from various programs. This will noticeably come up with windows powershell and executing commands, starting up windows in general, or just different programs and applications wont loads right away. Laptop is WDC 1tb Hard Drive, i7 5500u, NVidia 940m, 16gb ram 1600 MHz. These are the solutions I have tried from different sources:
1. I Tried doing a complete install.
2. Ive tried disabling superfetch and windows search. Didn't work
3. Ive also tried updating the drivers for the hard drive. Didn't work
4. Ive also tried increasing the allocating the MB on the Disk Drive to 16000mb min and 32000 max. Didn't work.

 

[jasonkaler]

look in task manager at exactly what process is using your disk - you can click on the disk column's title to order by it.
For me it was windows compatibility telemetry which was the problem. a real pain to solve.

 

[Justworkdamnit]

I see that it's super fetch and system which will vary from 10-70mb/s but sometimes the mb will go up as disk % goes down so it seems unrelated and often they'll sit at .1mb/s and I'll be at 99%

 

[Justworkdamnit]

Does no one have an answer???

 

[jasonkaler]

What you can also do is go to the prefetch folder C:\Windows\Prefetch and delete everything there.
also delete everything out your temp folder (easy way to get there is to enter %temp% in file explor address.

That should help, but beyond that, here's a nice article that includes a section on how to disable superfetch
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/4-tips-fix-100-disk-usage-improve-windows-performance/

 

[Justworkdamnit]

There shouldn't be much in temp or prefer as I had done a clean install.. and I've already tried disabling superfetch

 

[jasonkaler]

Give this a shot:
https://ugetfix.com/ask/how-to-disable-microsoft-compatibility-telemetry-compattelrunner-exe/

also, what anti-virus are you running?
some of them increase disk usage until you've done a full system scan as they scan every file accesses.
after a full scan they only check files that change

 

[Fanstar1]

superfetch is not a critical windows process, so deleting it won't mess up your system. It does have a purpose, and it is not some kind of malware or Virus, and comes pre-part of all windows 10 machines.

 

[Justworkdamnit]

Well as I mentioned I've disabled super fetch and the same thing happened, the drive has been formatted and when I clean installed there was no anti virus malware at the time and it was still having the same issue.

 

[Justworkdamnit]

I've seen Norton use 2.2mb and the did usage me at 100% and Norton will be the highest on disk usage. I'll maybe have 20mb at most running and it'll be 100%

 

[Justworkdamnit]

So I followed the steps on telemetry and still 100% did usage. Only thing running is Microsoft office at 10mb/s....

 

[Fanstar1]

So I followed the steps on telemetry and still 100% did usage. Only thing running is Microsoft office at 10mb/s....

Are you using Microsoft office? Do you need it?

 

[Justworkdamnit]

Yea I need it im a student but I feel like 10/mbs shouldn't even result in 1% disk usage the 100% disk usage occurs before anything because I did a CLEAN INSTALL and the disk usage was still high before redownlosding anything. Any program using more than 1mb/s results in high disk usage.

 

[jasonkaler]

Yea I need it im a student but I feel like 10/mbs shouldn't even result in 1% disk usage the 100% disk usage occurs before anything because I did a CLEAN INSTALL and the disk usage was still high before redownlosding anything. Any program using more than 1mb/s results in high disk usage.

I agree with that sentiment but you must take into consideration that laptops generally have pretty slow drives. I was shocked to find the actual speed of mine is less than half that of a desktop equivalent.
I have less ram than you so I put in a SD card and used readyboost. that helped me, but I'm not sure if it will do anything to a machine with 16GB

try clean up office click to run:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_other-mso_windows8/microsoft-office-click-to-run-process-running-with/c88b90d6-0805-408d-a7bd-47ef8cf31f24
Newer versions of office will have a different version number in the path.

Something else I did is clean up task scheduler.
In the start menu, search for task scheduler
the root node (i.e. "task scheduler (local)") gives a list of recently run tasks.
if you click "display all running tasks" you should get a list like this:
CacheTask, MsCtfMonitor, SystemSoundService
Anything else there is unusual on a clean install.

go to it's immediate child node, "task scheduler library"
disable everything there you don't need. Usually people have about 10 tasks for adobe, google and dropbox updates.

There's a plethora of tasks under microsoft/windows
You can possibly disable things like defrag

 

[Rob_106]

Hi There,

This solution from Microsoft worked for me.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/3083595/task-manager-might-show-100-disk-utilization-on-windows-10-devices-wit

 

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Question from Justworkdamnit : "Task Manager Disk Percentage Almost Always 100%"

So my laptop HP envy M7-n101dx has been having a problem with lag and everything seems to start up slow and take forever to load, ESPECIALLY window's Powershell and starting commands in it. The disk usage will spike from 0-1% all the way from 50-100%+ on 0.1 mbs of use from various programs. This will noticeably come up with windows powershell and executing commands, starting up windows in general, or just different programs and applications wont loads right away. Laptop is WDC 1tb Hard Drive, i7 5500u, NVidia 940m, 16gb ram 1600 MHz.
These are the solutions I have tried from different sources:
1. I Tried doing a complete install.
2. Ive tried disabling superfetch and windows search. Didn't work
3. Ive also tried updating the drivers for the hard drive. Didn't work
4. Ive also tried increasing the allocating the MB on the Disk Drive to 16000mb min and 32000 max. Didn't work.

Please help someone ._.

Hi there,

I was experiencing the same issues as you and followed the same steps without result. I came across the following Microsoft Support article and it fixed my problem.

Task Manager might show 100% disk utilization on Windows 10 devices with Message Signaled Interrupt (MSI) mode enabled


I was able to turn superfetch, windows search and windows defender back on and still be at 0% hard drive usage! Hopefully this will work for you as well.

So my laptop HP envy M7-n101dx has been having a problem with lag and everything seems to start up slow and take forever to load, ESPECIALLY window's Powershell and starting commands in it. The disk usage will spike from 0-1% all the way from 50-100%+ on 0.1 mbs of use from various programs. This will noticeably come up with windows powershell and executing commands, starting up windows in general, or just different programs and applications wont loads right away. Laptop is WDC 1tb Hard Drive, i7 5500u, NVidia 940m, 16gb ram 1600 MHz.
These are the solutions I have tried from different sources:
1. I Tried doing a complete install.
2. Ive tried disabling superfetch and windows search. Didn't work
3. Ive also tried updating the drivers for the hard drive. Didn't work
4. Ive also tried increasing the allocating the MB on the Disk Drive to 16000mb min and 32000 max. Didn't work.