Windows 10 "100% disk usage" problem

Windows search and indexing can be very disk intensive.  Try this first - disable windows search and see if it fixes the issue - fixed mine.

Look here and step through 'Way 3'

https://www.cleverfiles.com/howto/100-disk-usage-windows-10.html

You can try looking in task manager to see what is accessing your disk so much.  Just hit ctrl+alt+del and click on "task manager" on the menu that comes up.  You can then scroll through the list of applications and processes to see what's responsible for accessing the hard drive so much.  Unfortunately, this sort of thing is usually caused by a virus on your machine, but task manager would be a good, first troubleshooting step.

JohnnyK, what is your system specs?

ddp59

JohnnyK, what is your system specs?

 

8 GB RAM

900GB Disc, 554 GB free

2944MB Virtual Memory

mechanical hard drive or ssd? i presume desktop not laptop?

JohnnyK

My Wndows 10 PC is experiencing a common problem, "100% disk usage". The hard drive is operating at 100% usage (not capacity) which makes the PC run dirt slow. Does anyone have a soultion for this?

 

Buy a Mac......

disastermaster, explain that to a friend of mine who has a mac & has troubles with it.

My wife has an older HP all-in-one and it was having a similar problem.  Turned out it was downloading rather large updates.  Can you leave the machine on overnight, don't let it go to sleep.  Could me the same issue.

ddp59

mechanical hard drive or ssd? i presume desktop not laptop?

 

disastermaster

 

 

JohnnyK

My Wndows 10 PC is experiencing a common problem, "100% disk usage". The hard drive is operating at 100% usage (not capacity) which makes the PC run dirt slow. Does anyone have a soultion for this?

 

 

 

 

Buy a Mac......

        and never look back.

 

keavdog

My wife has an older HP all-in-one and it was having a similar problem.  Turned out it was downloading rather large updates.  Can you leave the machine on overnight, don't let it go to sleep.  Could me the same issue.

 

JohnnyK

Well, I also have a MacBook. For some reason I cannot login to the FSM forum on the MacBook. 

 

Never used a Mac laptop....

Always a desktop, for over 20 years now. FSM comes in great.

ddp59

disastermaster, explain that to a friend of mine who has a mac & has troubles with it.

JohnnyK, hp computer can also be a laptop besides a desktop. could install a ssd as your windows drive & use the hard drive for your data as the ssd is about 10 times faster then the hard drive. i've done that with both of my towers with a 128gig ssd for windows & a 1tb hard drive for data.

Was it the CPU or the memory?  I had a similar thing happen to me today, fired up PC and after 60 seconds of idling the memory usage was maxed out.  I traced it back to a web based media server program I use to stream movies from my hard drive to my TV. I disabled the program from start up, restarted, and it is fixed.    

Glamdring

Was it the CPU or the memory?  I had a similar thing happen to me today, fired up PC and after 60 seconds of idling the memory usage was maxed out.  I traced it back to a web based media server program I use to stream movies from my hard drive to my TV. I disabled the program from start up, restarted, and it is fixed.    

 

Mo hard drive runs at 100% usage.