Windows 10: Microsoft Power Service causing 100% Disk Usage

I am running Windows 10 Home 1903 OS Build 18362.418 and my computer was experiencing extremely slow performance with my C drive reporting 100% utilization.


When I would start Windows, my computer would immediately grind to a halt and take more than a minute to respond to a user action.


The task manager and resource monitor did not report any processes using the disk even near such usage.


I went through msconfig to switch to a diagnostic startup and the issue went away.


I started enabling the services half at a time and once the issue came back, I started to cut back half at a time.


I ended up narrowing it down to the "Power" service which launches the svchost.exe with following arguments according to services.msc, "C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe -k DcomLaunch -p".


I have enabled every service and startup task except the "Power" service and the issue has not come back (and it was reproducible every startup).


I was going to run sysinternals to figure out what it was trying to do, but that sounded like a pain in the ****.


I'm leaving this post here so someone else doesn't have to run their own binary search of **** Windows processes.


TL;DR disable Power service in services.msc because it blows chunks

:)

 

100% disk usage

The most common cause of 100% disk usage appears to be Superfetch and Prefetch, but there are also other causes. You can try disabling both these features and see if it helps.

This article provides steps to disable prefecth and superfetch:

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How to Fix 100% Disk Usage Error in Windows 10

 

100% disk usage.

Summer has ended and my girlfriend booted her school laptop for the first time in months, only for it to be so unbearably slow that it took several minutes to log in. She handed it to me and said "fix it"... that was 3 days ago and now I am here to humbly
ask the community what is going on with this GD laptop.

It boots and task manager reports 100%CPU usage, it then lags for several seconds and displays 100%disk usage with CPU usage bouncing between 30-60%.

If you leave it alone with task manager running it will eventually quiet down to a reasonable 0-5% disk usage, but doing ANYTHING causes it to bounce right back to 100%.

I have tried EVERYTHING.

• disable superfetch.
• disable microsoft search.
• disable updates and suggestive tips.
• updated to the most current version of microsoft. (it hadn't been updated since 2018 when she bought it.)
• reconfigured AHCI PCIE.
• changed energy options.
• disabled indexing.
• reset the virtual memory.
• ran disk defragment and disabled all scheduling.
• updated all drivers.
• deleted google chrome.
• Disabled all services that weren't microsoft services and disabled all startup programs (clean boot).

Still no change in the disk usage.

Its an HP Laptop model 15-bw0xx with Windows 10 home edition version 10.0.18362

after messing with it this long im considering replacing the HDD with an SSD but I fear that it wont fix the issue.

 

100% disk usage and memory usage

Hi,

100% disk usage and memory usage can be caused by a software corruption, running application running on the background and malware or virus infection.

For us to properly isolate the issue and provide an appropriate resolution, kindly answer the questions below:

• Did the issue happen after installing the Fall Creators?
• Did you receive any error messages?
• Can you send us the screenshot of the Task Manager showing the 100% disk usage and memory usage?
• What troubleshooting steps have you done so far?

For isolation purposes, please perform a clean boot to see if the same issue will occur. Refer to this
article for more information on how to perform a clean boot
in Windows.

Looking forward to your response.