Windows 10: Windows 10 is very slow and often spikes the disk at 100 percent.

Discus and support Windows 10 is very slow and often spikes the disk at 100 percent. in Windows 10 Performance & Maintenance to solve the problem; My computer is very slow and laggy for no apparent reason for months now. My hdd spikes often to 100% on task manager even with low transfer rates. And... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Performance & Maintenance' started by gal1234, Sep 20, 2020.

  1. GAL1234
    gal1234 Win User

    Windows 10 is very slow and often spikes the disk at 100 percent.


    My computer is very slow and laggy for no apparent reason for months now. My hdd spikes often to 100% on task manager even with low transfer rates. And there isnt a usual process behind it. Sometimes it just starts spiking out of nowhere, sometimes when i launch a game, sometimes i launch firefox et cetera. I have tried everything from defragmenting, disabling superfetch, windows defender, disabling search, updating drivers, checking drive for errors and many many more.
    Any help would be much appriciated.
    windows version 2004 (os build 19041.508)

    :)
     
    gal1234, Sep 20, 2020
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  2. RYANMOUNCE
    RyanMounce Win User

    Windows 10 disk keeps spiking to 100%

    Hi,

    My disk keeps spiking to 100% since I upgraded to Windows 10. I upgraded in September and the problem started with little infrequent spikes where the disk would stay at 100% for a few seconds. However since September the problem has got progressively worse
    and now the disk usage frequently reaches 100% and it stays at 100% for about 5 minutes.

    I've tried various solutions on the internet to 100% disk but none of them have worked.
     
    RyanMounce, Sep 20, 2020
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  3. SDUSDUS123
    sdusdus123 Win User
    100 percent disk usage

    iv tried everything suggested there, nothing helped. everytime i restart my computer the disk is in 100 percent usage. some times it will go under(to 50-60) but never below that. and i dont think is "Just means that your hard drive controller is maxing out and performing as designed", because every time it gets to 100 percent the computer get very slow.
     
    sdusdus123, Sep 20, 2020
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  4. 1DEZ
    1Dez Win User

    Windows 10 is very slow and often spikes the disk at 100 percent.

    100% Disk usage spike on Windows 10

    Recently I have experienced that when running most applications (especially gaming) my Laptop would have a disk usage spike to 99% or 100%. when I check the task manager there is no specific program using the disk, its just at 100% usually forcing me to
    do a hard restart. baring in mind that when I run the programs the usually run smoothly and very randomly the disk usage spikes. this has only been happening since downloading windows 10. I have read many threads and applied many fixes such as disabling SuperFetch,
    BIT service and windows update. I have also disable cloud based protection which seemed to work for some people but not for me, any other suggestions?
     
    1Dez, Sep 20, 2020
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