Windows 10: Computer extremely slow with 100% disk usage. Please help.

Hi i have a 5 year old Dell Laptop. About a week ago the computer became extremely slow and freezes all the time. It has 100% disk usage with normal startup constantly. Dialog boxes often have text missing. For example command prompt has no text and is blank.

In safe mode and diagnostic startup computer is okay and all text is visible. Please help i do not know what's causing this or how to fix.

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Windows Disk Usage is 100%

My computer has been extremely slow for a while. The Disk usage is always at 100%. (It shows up as 50% in the task manager list while 100% in the graph). Is there any solution for how to fix and speed this up? I have tried to turn off windows search index
and did the command "net.exe stop superfetch" but both did not have much of an effect. Any help on this issue would be greatly appreciated!

 

Extremely slow Win10 with constant 100% disk

My Dell Inspiron 3147 (11 inch) continuously preforms extremely slow at everything; from loading Windows initially to logging in to opening programs...

Doing anything from a USB flash drive is much faster, however, for some reason.

So I checked task manager (with nothing else open on a fresh install) and disk usage was 100%, no matter what I did, with speeds extremely slow as well.

I'm not sure if my drive is fried or corrupted, but is there a way to solve this? I don't think it is fully broken if this is still bootable.

Thanks for help in advance!

EDIT: All the specifications listed on my account are the same for this specific system.

(Also, running Ubuntu off of a separate USB stick, not touching the main drive, worked at expected speeds too. This supports that it is a drive issue.)

tl;dr: Laptop is extremely slow with the drive being at a constant 100% usage. Everything but the drive runs at normal speeds.

 

Disk Usage at 100% and computer is extremely slow and nearly unresponsive.

I know this has been posted/asked before, however I have looked on multiple forums and posts and have still not found a solution. I have tried multiple solutions found on the following sites.

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/4-tips-fix-100-disk-usage-improve-windows-performance/Disk usage always at 100%

https://www[dot]drivereasy[dot]com/...manager-improve-pc-performance-on-windows-10/.

This is a computer for a friend that I am trying to help out with, because he is not very computer "literate". He has a Toshiba Satellite P55W-5200. He told me he purchased it under a year ago.