Windows 10: "System" Process is constantly writing after Windows 10 last update.

Everything was running smoothly, right until the last windows update (Granted I also installed Visual c++ redis before rebooting, but I think that's irrelevant)



My disk (SSD) has a permanent use fluctuating between 11% and 33%, this started yesterday, I figured it was some shenanigans going on in the background and I didn't give it too much thought, a few hours later I realized the disk usage never hit 0-1% (as it always had since I got this pc)



I checked what was using the disk in the Processes Tab of Task Manager and found out it was "System", so I entered the resource monitor in the Performance tab, and came across the results in the pictures below.



"SOFTWARE.LOG1", "SOFTWARE.LOG2" and "SYSTEM.LOG" are incessently reading and writing non-stop, I tried rebooting, deactivating the search index and superfetch and what not, reduced startup programs to a bare minimum, but nothing changed, the SAME rate of read/write and disk usage remained the same, this is irking me as I fear for my SSD's life.



If anyone knows how to fix this, please help! Below are the screenshots of the disk usage graph and resource monitoring.

https://imgur.com/a/EGANuAY

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Laptop constantly writing to disk


Alienware 17 running Windows 10 Home. Works fine, but the thing is CONSTANTLY writing to the disk. I know this is way too imprecise to give me a definitive answer, but I fired up the resource monitor and the "system NT Kernel and System" process writes to dozens of files constantly...

It's been on for over 4 hours and it's STILL writing constantly. Almost no reading...

I have NOTHING running other than the stuff that starts with Windows, and VERY little of that since the Startup section of the task manager has pretty much every disabled. I even turned OFF wi-fi so it COULDN'T do anything stupid over the metered connection and it STILL sat there writing constantly

I can't imagine that this is normal and I"m wondering how to figure out what to do next. Ideas?

 

Windows 10 Tweaks

That doesn't stop windows update from grabbing them on next run, at least it didn't back in the RTM days. It simply stops a secondary process from installing them immediately.

 

Windows 10 Tweaks

How to stop Windows 10 from automatically installing new and updated drivers constantly (particularly for GPU users with stable drivers)

• Right click "My Computer"
• Click "Properties"
• Click on "Hardware" tab
• Click "Device Installation Settings"
• Tick the "No, let me choose what to do"
• Tick "Never install driver software from Windows Update"