Windows 10: Help me please. (100% disc usage) What do I need to do? (amateur)

Hi guys and gals,

Let me start this by stating, this is a purely work pc. (no porn, torrents, and so on) essentially just basic stuff.

Anyways, I have noticed my PC is just so sluggish, and after going into task manager, I noticed my disk usage is 100%. I'm no expert in regards to PC, far from it to be honest, but I assume that's not ideal. I have looked at ways to fix this, and I always end up downloading Driver Easy, then , find out its not so easy unless you pay for it, and then uninstall it and leave it for another 5 months. ( I dont even know if the issue is associated with this program).

What do I need to do? I look at my usage and no programs scream out a problem.

any tips? ideas?

As far as I know, its a decent laptop, (2 or so years old)



Cheers guys





***EDIT****
Im going to upload my Task manager, hang tight

Task manager https://imgur.com/a/ENVbpgp

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Disc Usage at 100%

Hi Andre,

Thanks for getting back to me.

I started going through your list of suggestions.

I have switched off all background apps. I was horrified to see so many.

I then disabled windows update.

At that stage I thought I would check out disc usage on task manager.

Disc activity had gone down dramatically and in the performance tag activity was very low, it spiked from time to time if I did something on the PC but the speed on all activity was back to normal.

I thought I would leave things as they were and see if things stayed the same.

No problems at all until this afternoon I was trying to look at a file via windows explorer and got the message "not responding". A quick look at task manager and disc activity is 100% again. Everything slows down. I close down some screens and the desk
top turns black.

The only way I can get a display up again is "alt" + "tab". The task bar has disappeared. I decided to reboot but the only way I can do that is with the on'/off switch.

The PC reboots. I check that all the apps are still switched off and windows update is still disabled, Disc activity is still 100%.

As I type this disc activity has suddenly dropped. it keeps spiking to 100% but then reverts back to about 12%.

Is this normal or is there something else I should do.

Back to 100% now. How do I find out what is actually happening, what activity is the disc doing?

I am confused.

Any suggestions?

 

Task Manager indicates 99-100% disc usage

Hi,

About your issue regarding your PC. Mostly the issue occur if your not cleaning your PC. Like for example: Not removing the file that you don't need or always cleaning your cache. We suggest you to check this article:

How to fix disc usage in Windows 10. This article contains troubleshooting steps for you to fix the issue.

Regards.

 

100% disc usage solved

I may have spoken too soon? After a few weeks, disc usage has crept up again so it is now 100% much of the time. Mostly seems to be System or Norton accessing the disc. My memory usage is always around 60-70%.