10 Ways to Resolve a % Disk Usage on Windows 10 ()

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
For example, on a seven-year-old HP laptop with an old mechanical drive, the maximum read and write speeds are about 40 to 50 MB per second. You can temporarily and permanently stop Superfetch with the нажмите чтобы узнать больше process used to disable Windows search. Make sure the arrow in the Disk column is pointing down. Opening a folder of photos and videos: The preview gree take a long time to load, and the green bar at the top of Windows Explorer fills up very slowly.
 
 

 

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Details required : characters remaining Cancel Submit people found this reply helpful. But that doesn’t fix it. Rendering my computer useless for at least 5 minutes. This is a custom built computer I built myself. It only recently started doing this in the past month. My start up time used to be 30 seconds. As it stands the only program that starts up is OneDrive. I even turned off the Shadow Copy, and the paging file size to 0.

Details required : characters remaining Cancel Submit 34 people found this reply helpful. I’m sorry. Here is the key part of what he had to say:.

Details required : characters remaining Cancel Submit 72 people found this reply helpful. So, I did that, and this seems to be the culprit: msmpeng. It’s still going. However, even though it says it’s Windows Defender said many places online. I have that disabled. What else is alarming, is if it were a virus, you’d think Malwarebyte’s Anti Malware, and COMODO Security would have caught it if it were so, i’ve scanned numerous times before and nothing ever came up.

Tried ending the task, and it denies me. But my uptime has only been 20 some minutes, despite Task manager saying 2 days. Which is confusing since my entire system was unplugged before I left out of town. Hopefully I can figure out how to get this off. It’s annoying for the first minutes or so. My boot time is now 30 seconds since removing Comodo.

Next is csrss. Same issue I had. The problem to me does appear to be Defender as you mentioned, and while you think you are disabling it, I believe it continues to run in the background and hog the disk. Read below and give this a try. For me, my computer continues to perform perfectly a week afterwards. Yes, there may be many reasons but it’s just as likely it’s something simple.

In my case, I came to suspect Defender was at the heart of the problem. After trying numerous “Fixes,” including turning off Defender, to the extent that it will allow , nothing seemed to work. My fan was running continuously and I was sure my hard drive would self-destruct. So, suspecting that turning off Defender’s “Real-Time Protection” truly didn’t shut down completely, I downloaded the free program, “Spybot Search and Destroy.

No problems whatsoever. I have no doubt that you could try other anti-virus programs and get the same result. This is by far the simplest “Fix” I’ve tried If it doesn’t work for you, simply delete it and go back to Defender.

Having said that, I’d prefer to use Defender myself This enabled Defender to turn back on. So, if anyone can convince me that Defender is NOT the problem here While it is not my primary disk that is being hogged, I can’t access any files until the Windows Antimalware Executable is done doing it’s thing.

I found the easy way to negate this issue : Upon startup, go straight to Windows Defender you can have an icon in the notification tray to get there faster. Switch “Real-time Protection” off and then back on again. Choose where you want to search below Search Search the Community.

Search the community and support articles Windows Windows 10 Search Community member. Joe Boughton. If you have antivirus software running in the background it should have caught the issue. Nothing is perfect though, so force your antivirus package to scan your hard drive for a potential infection. This could be a time-consuming process since your disk is already experiencing high usage but might be necessary to identify and remove malicious software.

Another Windows 10 feature that can cause problems is the Windows Superfetch service. You can disable this service temporarily in a similar fashion to Windows search with the command: net. Use this procedure:. See if this improves your disk usage. If so, you may want to consider changing antivirus packages. Virtual memory treats your disk as if it is RAM and uses it to swap out temporary files when it runs out of actual RAM.

Errors in the pagefile. The remedy to this problem is to reset your virtual memory settings. A check disk can show you if there are any physical problems with your hard drive. Usually, a high disk usage indicates that there is an application or logical issue driving the disk usage, but it is worth your time to rule out any physical damage. Run check disk and note its results. Some users have reported that making these changes to your Google Chrome and Skype settings can have a beneficial effect on your disk usage.

One last thing to try is to disable any automatic defrag processes that are running as they may be causing you problems. You need to fix the issue or risk a very slow moving computer. Jeff Cochin is a data management and recovery expert. He also serves as a technical writer, testing and reviewing tech solutions in various fields.

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