Windows 10: Windows 8.1: 100% Disk usages at Startup. How to overcome?

First of all here is the screenshot of the program that causes trouble when I boot my laptop.Service host taking 100% disk:When I boot my Laptop up disk usages remains 100% for almost 5 minutes and if I have an internet connection and if I open chrome, the download speed goes up to 5 Mbps. Then I have use resource monitor to end that processes. I have disabled all the startup programs and also disabled prefetch and other services. But this problem persists. How do I solve this issue?

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Windows 10 100% Disk Usage on startup.

Hi,

Thank you for responding.

I suggest you to try the below steps and check if it helps.

Step 1: First of all, take a note of the processes or applications that is running when the computer runs with high disk usage. Also, we need to find the applications that are running at startup.

Follow the steps to check for the processes under Task Manager:

• Press Ctrl+Shift+Esc to open Task Manager.
  
• Click on Processes tab. Check if any of the processes consumes high memory usage.

Bad sectors on the hard drive can be a cause for high disk usage.

Check which process is utilizing the Hard Disk on Windows 8.1, you may try the following steps.

• Open Task Manager and click on
  Details tab.
• Right click the columns headers and click "Select Columns".
• From the "Select Columns" window, check: I/O Reads, I/O Writes, I/O read bytes, I/O write bytes and then click
  OK.
• Now the columns will be added to the view and will display how much each process is utilizing from the hard disk.
• Sort by I/O read bytes or I/O write bytes by clicking on the column header to see which process is utilizing the Hard Drive most.

Step 2: If you have not run the 'check disk' scan or tried optimizing the drive, follow the steps from this article.

Improve performance by optimizing your drive

(Note: This applies to Windows 10 also.)

Important: While performing check disk on the hard drive, if any bad sectors are found on the hard drive, it tries to repair that sector and any data available on that might be lost.

Hope it helps. Feel free to get back to us for any further queries or issues related to Windows Operating System, we will be happy to help you.

 

100 % disk usage in windows 8.1

Forum contributor

Hello up there : well the standard fixes, that most Mods and contributors

suggest are contained in this webPage : maybe Skip the workaround

of turn off the Restore feature..some items disabled on these fixes

are enabled again after-Restart the Pc if I'm wrong, someone

can correct it and push an additional solution. Thanks

Link :
https://www.jhitsolutions.co.uk/windows-8-windows-8-1-100-disk-usage-possible-fixes

 

100 Disk Usage after Startup

Hi,

To resolve your 100% disk usage issue, please follow the steps below:

• Press Windows key+i to open Settings, then select Privacy.
• Under Privacy, select Feedback & diagnostics.
  
• Under Diagnostic and usage data, change Send your device data to Microsoft to
  Enhanced or Basic.
• Close the Settings.

Let us know how it goes.