Windows 10: No relief from constant hard drive activity

I finally had to set up a dual boot with Ubuntu so that I could browse the net in peace. The constant clicky-clack of my hard drive drove me nuts. Windows lately has not given it a rest. Ubuntu on the other hand hardly ever causes overuse of the hard drive. Windows needs to get a handle on this problem..

*Mad

:)

 

Constant Hard Drive Activity

Do you have a particular reason why that is a problem?

My hard drive is often busy when I'm not doing anything on the computer. It could be indexing, or synching, or doing background scans or any of the other housekeeping tasks that Windows does when it sees that I'm not actively using the computer.

And that's just Windows. I also have applications installed that wait until the computer is idle to spring into action for backups, virus scans, maintaining my music library, etc.

So unless you have a particular reason to suspect that something is wrong, it sounds right to me.

 

Constant Hard Drive Activity

Windows 10 my hard drive has constant activity.

 

"It is not a bug, it is a feature." *Rolleyes

Seriously, Windows has many tasks to improve functionality, which cause HDD activity, like indexing, superfetch, cortana/search, windows defender, smart filter, not to mention various logging being sent to MS to improve user's experience. You have to customize it the way you want it, like in Ubuntu, mine Windows is calm. *Nerd

 

Mine is calm too after a while, maybe 5-10 minutes. Check your startup items and services.

 

For the record, this is my HDD's activity after startup. 10 only checks for updates and that is it.
You should look, which processes cause the activity and then you can do something about them.