Windows 10: Extremely high intermittent disk usage

Hello,

From sometime in October, after an update, there have been periods, sometimes intermittent, sometime persisting for a long time, when Disk usage spikes up to 100%, and makes a lot of things unusable.

I did some researching, and disabled a bunch of stuff, like Windows notifications, Windows search, background intelligent transfer and superfetch, even OneDrive, but even on Windows 10 version 1511, Disk usage spikes to 100%, the offending application / service being anything from System to memory compression to 3rd party applications...

This is becoming extremely irritating, and my video playback or something else stutters a lot when disk usage jumps up, often at chronic levels, then backs down, or stays at that usage for some time.

Could anyone suggest a remedy for this? I have run out of ideas, barring a system reset...it used to work fine before an update in mid - October.

Thanks a lot.

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Extremely high disk usage and memory usage in Windows 10

My Dell Inspiron 13 computer is just over a year old and still within its warranty period. Windows 10 has just auto-updated and there is 99% disk usage. Memory usage is also 40% or higher. NO program is running. Windows SuperFetch and Antimalware Executable
are consuming all the memory and disk. The computer is hanging all the time and is EXTREMELY slow, totally unusable. What should I do?

 

Extremely high disk usage and memory usage in Windows 10

Hi Nandkishore,

A third-party program conflict can be the reason for this error. To isolate your concern, we recommend that you check this article on
how to perform a clean boot in Windows. This helps eliminate
software conflicts that occur when you install a program or an update. You may also determine what conflict is causing the issue by performing this method.

Note: Please go through the section: How to reset the computer to start normally after clean boot troubleshooting to boot the computer in normal startup after fixing the issue.

Let us know how it goes after you've performed the steps.

 

I would try another disk. This could very well be a hardware problem.

 

Hello,

It actually used to work fine just before the update. I have seen this issue, almost exactly the same, being reported in other places as well. Also I've run a host of diagnostic tests on my laptop for the disk, and they all report it's alright. Drivers are updated to Windows 10 as per OEM releases.

For example :

http://forums.windowscentral.com/skype/388912-disk-usage-very-high.html

- is one post which describes roughly the same issue. However, my problem is not related to skype, it's disabled. So are things like OneDrive etc.