Windows 10: High Disk Usage during Startup, slows down my pc

Hi, I just installed win 10 last day, and it was going fine, no conflicts on the drivers whatsoever. But after a day, when I booted up, it seems to have slowed down to a point that everything does not respond to my inputs, though it does after a couple of minutes, i check the task manager and it shows that the disk usage is high, the r/w speed show high utilization about 10-40mbps and the active time is 100%, anyone of you experienced this? I have read some thread and suggested to turn off superfetch and prefetch but that didn't do a thing to me. Btw, I installed it over win 8.1 using a bootable usb.

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High disk usage on Windows and apps startup

Hi,

When I'm starting up my Windows 10, it's quite fast to get to the login screen as you would expect with my specs. After typing in my password the problems start. It's sometimes painfully slow to get all of my basic programs loaded (sound card software, google
chrome, antivirus) or even Windows so that I can start using my PC without making it to freeze completely for about a minute.

This happens because my disk usage is 100% during startup and login. It's either System (PID 4) or some else app like Avast! or Google Chrome using some disk to startup. The disk read speeds vary but I usually get 100% disk usage with 0.1-20 MB/s transfer
rates. (I can get max around 120 MB/s read speed)

Also wanted to mention that sometimes my pc completely freezes for like a minute or so with 0-0.1 MB/s disk read/write speed (or at least Task Manager says so) with again 100% disk usage.

High disk usage can also occur when Windows is loaded, but there's file transfer going on like updating Steam games or just opening Skype. Disk usage gets usually back to around 0% when the app is fully loaded or the game has been updated but this extends
startup time for almost all apps radically or slows them down.

Could this be a software issue or a hardware? Any help is appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-4790 @ 3.60 GHz

RAM: 8,0 GB DDR3

GPU: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 770 2GB

HDD: 1 TB WDC WD10EZEX21M2NA0

OS: Windows 10 64-bit

 

High CPU and Disk uses and PC slows down.

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Do have an antivirus?

 

I do, I installed avast.

 

I think I resolved it, I unchecked the maximum memory on msconfig, that might have caused the ram to be limited

 

Tried reinstalling Windows 10, now it runs perfectly.

 

For solution,go to settings, system,notifications, and turning off "show me tips about Windows".I tried and it works.

 

*Devil​ No

 

it's avast... one of it's settings (settings/general/smart scan) is scan for compatibility issues - meaning check to make sure programs are compatible... if it is on, you get HDD crunch on boot up as it is checking EVERYTHING running...