Windows 10: system is randomly going up a lot in disk usage, causing my entire pc to slow down for a...

when i open task manager i can see that system is taking up a large amount of disk usage causing my entire pc to slow down for a period of time

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100% disk usage is always lagging my PC?

I have had Windows 11 installed on my Alienware PC with 2TB HDD and the 100% disk usage is causing my PC to slow down an awful lot meaning that downloading games from Steam and updating is causing an initial slowdown to my PC that I got in 2019 and it would go extremely slow when using it and the disk usage always reaches 100% it would cause the PC to slow down and what is the difference between HDD and SSD drive if the traditional HDD has slowed down my PC so often?

 

100% Disk Usage, all caused by NTOSKRNL.EXE (System) + More!




Hi,
I just suffered by seeing this:



My Disk is 100%! and it caused by the System process.

Plus:
It slowing down my keyboard. A LOT!

 

slowness in computer usage.

Hi John,

Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community.

I appreciate if you could answer a few questions to narrow down to the issue.

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  What is the make and model of the computer?
  
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  What makes you think that system is running slow? Is it when you are trying to run application?
  
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  Did you install any third party security application?
  

From the screenshot that you have provided, I understood that it’s not the issue with the disk usage. The slowness might be due to the memory usage.

As an initial troubleshooting step, I suggest you to run maintenance task and check if it helps.

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  Press Windows key + X from the desktop.
  
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  Select Control panel and Select System and Security.
  
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  Click on Troubleshoot common computer problems under System and maintenance.
  
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  Now Run maintenance task under
  System and security.
  

Hope the information helps. Let us know if you need further assistance. We will be happy to help.

Thank you.