Windows 10 Continuous Use of Hard Drive
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I suspect that some application creating issues on background. Let's perform a clean boot in Windows and check if it works.
A clean boot is performed to start Windows by using a minimal set of drivers and startup programs. This helps eliminate software conflicts that occur when you install a program or an update or when you run a program. Follow the below mentioned steps to perform Clean Boot:
a. Press Windows Key , t ype msconfig in the search box, and hit Enter.
b. On the Services tab of the System Configuration dialog box, tap or click to select the Hide all Microsoft services check box, and then tap or click Disable all .
c. On the Startup tab of the System Configuration dialog box, tap or click Open Task Manager .
d. On the Startup tab in Task Manager, for each startup item, select the item and then click Disable .
e. Close Task Manager.
f. On the Startup tab of the System Configuration dialog box, tap or click OK , and then restart the computer. Now check if the problem still appears.
If a service is causing issue, I suggest you turn on 5 services at a time, reboot and then see if the problem reappears, keep repeating this until you find a group of 5 services, which are causing this issue, then check the one by one, till you find the one which is causing your issue. Perform the same divide and apply for Startup's too.
Refer the below article on "How to Perform Clean Boot". As the article is designed for Windows 8.1, Windows 8 and Windows 7. Unlike launching step for 'System Configuration', options and steps to Clean Boot are same for Windows 10.
Note: After you finish troubleshooting, refer "How to reset the computer to start normally after clean boot troubleshooting" from the same article.
Moreover, ensure that your system is up to date with Windows Updates. Go to Start Button/>Settings/>Update & Security/> Windows Update and check for any available updates. Also suggest you to check and install all latest and compatible windows 10 drivers from Manufacture's website for your device. Most probably it will fix all issues.
Keep us posted if you require further assistance.
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Startup is located in the task manager in win10, not in msconfig, i have already tried this, though.
I have next to nothing enabled at startup, only windows defender, nvidia backend, java update, classic shell and rainmeter. i am quite sure none of the last four are causing the issue, but i have seen windows defender using absurd amounts of I/O while aparently doing nothing (no scan scheduled, nothing being installed or downloaded).
Almost all of the disk access is by system processes like svchost and MsMpEng, the actual programs and services being run almost all seem to be related to windows defender, prefetch, superfetch and other microsoft services.
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I am experiencing similar problems (in a smaller degree), but I think I had them on Win7 too, even before I upgrade to Win10.
What I usually do (that may help in some degree - by making the disk faster) is :
- Free as much drive space as possible (run CCleaner, move files to other drives).
- Clenup the drive using the built-in tool in Windows (also clean the update unstallers with that tool).
- Go and delete all restore points.
- Restart.
- Run a defragmentation tool.
- Then set the defragmentation tool to do a defragmentation at system startup and restart again (that can defragment the paging file and other files Windows usually does not allow access to).
- Check if the situation got better.
- You can create a restore point now, just to play it safe for future problems.
I have also noticed that, whenever I update my drivers with IOBit Driver Booster 3, it seems that my system becomes faster for some time and then after some time it becomes slow again. Generally it smells like driver problem to me which is also a MS ****-up, since it's them who verify Windows drivers (as far as I know).
If you are not afraid of driver updates (where many things can go wrong), you can run IOBit Driver Booster 3 too.
I used to have mouse lags, and this tool solved it when I used it to update my drivers (note: if you try to install an NVidia driver, shutdown your Comodo firewall - it messes the installation up). Updating drivers through the normal windows route did nothing helpfull.
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Yes exactly, especially svchost and MsMpEng
Microsoft should do something about this anti malware high disk usage.
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You know I think windows 10 has some bad strategy for cleaning up memory cache and prefers page swapping over cleaning memory up. I experience the same problem as @FlyingLama and I believe that most of my problem is related to page swapping while It shows free space in ram in performance section in task manager.
In order to see what's going on, I include statistics:
Memory:
In use (Compressed): 5.0GB (54.4MB)
Available: 731MB
Committed: 9.4/13.1 GB
Cached: 768MB
Page Pool: 346MB
Non-paged Pool: 200MB
This probably means that OS is preferring page file committing over cleaning up cached data. as I still have 731MB available space in my Ram but a large commit size.
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Interestingly enough i stumbled upon another person with a similar issue yesterday (100% disk usage, unable to boot to desktop at all), and asked him if he had disabled superfetch. He had not, and did it via the commandline, and his computer now boots normally.
I was quite surprised that it could, all by itself, cause perpetual disk grind on such a spectacular level.
On another note, my windows 10 install corrupted itself and the partition it was one, and since i have been using 7 with no issues at all. It is also faster.
Superfetch confirmed for malware.
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...almost constant 100% hard drive usage by windows 10. It starts at boot, and continues this way for 20+ minutes of complete unusable lag,..
If this is still a problem, see if you have CompatTelRunner.exe running. It can make this sort of trouble.
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We determined today that it was a combination of MsMpEng (windows antimalware service) doing who knows what, and superfetch. Disabled both and set up a 3rd-party antimalware, and everything is fine.
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Interestingly enough i stumbled upon another person with a similar issue yesterday (100% disk usage, unable to boot to desktop at all), and asked him if he had disabled superfetch. He had not, and did it via the commandline, and his computer now boots normally.
I was quite surprised that it could, all by itself, cause perpetual disk grind on such a spectacular level.
On another note, my windows 10 install corrupted itself and the partition it was one, and since i have been using 7 with no issues at all. It is also faster.
Superfetch confirmed for malware.
Thanks a lot. disabling superfetch really increased performance. I recommend others to try this. I completely disabled superfetch in services.msc
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I have the same issue with clean installs of windows 7 64-bit after updates if you guys changed the way windows uses the pagefile than undo any changes since before windows 10 launched because those of us who game are haveing our foreground games and processes throttled when less than 30% of our 8-32gb of ram is even used because of pagefile causing hard drive stutter(and yes I am only using 5-6gb of 24gb since the latest stream of updates but pagefile is choking at over 3gb in use after about 6 hours of system uptime(this is one of the reasons why no enthusiast is buying windows anymore and more often than not using linux based os's))
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Source: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/constant-hard-drive-overuse-by-the-system-on/bf6830ba-f42f-4378-8538-78f60eaa5c1b
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