Windows 10: 100% disk usage and long loading times for restarts.

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Desktop icons take long time to load - 100% disk usage

Hello everyone,
This is a problem I've been having for months but only today did I get the idea to ask for help here. So as the title suggests the icons in my desktop take quite some time to load, particularly when I do a cold boot (after a restart for instance). It also seems that the start menu and action center take long to load first time around, with this once again being worse after a cold boot. My best bet is that this is caused by the HDD usage being, according to task manager, always 100 or 99 percent, and it doesn't seem to be caused by a particular process, as if I end the process "causing it", the one below takes its place.

I have tried various methods to stop this, including:
-Disabling the superfetch and Windows Search services (since it did not appear to have any effect, I re-enabled them)
-Uninstalled AVG (and yes, I am certain this is not caused by a virus as I have scanned the computer multiple times since this started)
-Changed some persmission settings for skype and changed the value of a registry key (check this article for more information https://www.drivereasy.com/knowledge...on-windows-10/

The latter has seemingly improved things a bit but disk usage still seems to be stuck at 100%. Any suggestions on how I could deal with this?
Thanks in advance.

 

Skype seems to be causing 100% disk usage

I see I now have Skype 8.28.0.41 and with the Task Manager found that every time Skype loads, disk usage shoots to 100% and apart from a rare drop to 94% stays at 100% making my laptop unusable for as long as Skype is loaded. It drops back to zero after
Skype is closed. Suggestions on how to fix this please !!!

 

Desktop icons take long time to load - 100% disk usage

Hi Aggserp4 and welcome to Tenforums.
There are a few things to do:
1. Check your hard drive health
Crystal Disk Info
2. Perform a clean boot
Perform a Clean Boot in Windows 10 to Troubleshoot Software Conflicts - Windows 10 Performance Maintenance Tutorials
3. Run this malware scan (it's very quick)
ADWCleaner
If it finds anything, please post the log (C:\AdwCleaner\AdwCleaner[C1].txt)
4. Remove Dropbox if you have it installed.

Let us know how it goes.
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