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

Discus and support High Disk Usage during Startup, slows down my pc in Windows 10 Performance & Maintenance to solve the problem; 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... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Performance & Maintenance' started by keityrobins, Aug 2, 2015.

  1. 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.

    :)
     
    keityrobins, Aug 2, 2015
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  2. 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
     
    Eetu Häkkinen, Aug 2, 2015
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  3. lacrumb Win User
    High CPU and Disk uses and PC slows down.

    To help us to help you and to properly get answers to your post you should include some minimum information.

    1. Device type. ie PC, Laptop, Tablet, Surface, Phone

    2. Who made it and model. If home built what type motherboard

    3. OS type, Home, Pro, Enterprise, etc

    4. Current build. Go Settings, System. About. OS build XXXXXX.XXXX
     
    lacrumb, Aug 2, 2015
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  4. YOU
    You Win User

    High Disk Usage during Startup, slows down my pc

    Do have an antivirus?
     
  5. I do, I installed avast.
     
    keityrobins, Aug 2, 2015
    #5
  6. I think I resolved it, I unchecked the maximum memory on msconfig, that might have caused the ram to be limited
     
    keityrobins, Aug 2, 2015
    #6
  7. Tried reinstalling Windows 10, now it runs perfectly.
     
    keityrobins, Sep 4, 2015
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  8. High Disk Usage during Startup, slows down my pc

    For solution,go to settings, system,notifications, and turning off "show me tips about Windows".I tried and it works.
     
    Gelashvili, Jan 9, 2016
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  9. *Devil​ No
     
    seriouslyno, Apr 8, 2017
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  10. medievil Win User
    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...
     
    medievil, Apr 4, 2018
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