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I have a Dell Inspiron Core i5 with 4 GB RAM and 500 GB hard disk. After upgrading to windows 10 from 8.1, I am constantly facing a high disk usage problem which is causing my machine to run a ot slower than usual. The processes that usually have a high disk usage are as follows:
Is there any workaround for this issue?
Abhishek Agarwal
Posted 2016-07-10T17:19:47.810
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The trace shows that the Antimalware service (Windows Defender) is causing most disk IO and here it hangs at scanning the MFT (Master File Table) and reading data from the pagefile:
For me Defender/Microsoft Security Essentials were always slow and I never used them. Also try a different AV suite.
magicandre1981
Posted 2016-07-10T17:19:47.810
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You mean i should just get another software instead of defender? Which would you recommend(a free one preferably)? – Abhishek Agarwal – 2016-07-14T16:45:47.607
1try AvastFree or Avira AntiVir – magicandre1981 – 2016-07-15T04:07:36.987
I was using avira till now. It also had a high disk usage – Abhishek Agarwal – 2016-07-15T12:31:27.233
try Avast and look if you also see the high Disk usage – magicandre1981 – 2016-07-15T14:36:18.487
okay. Going to do that now. – Abhishek Agarwal – 2016-07-15T17:15:12.817
Installing avast helped with the anti malware process but the 'system and compressed memory' process is still using 100% disk – Abhishek Agarwal – 2016-07-17T14:35:03.423
1capture/share a new diskIO trace when you see the 100% Disk usage. – magicandre1981 – 2016-07-17T19:13:33.983
have you captured a new trace when using Avast – magicandre1981 – 2016-07-23T08:11:37.327
hey sorry for the late reply. Nothing helped with the disk usage issue, so i went ahead and upgraded my ram from 4GB to 8 GB and that has brought down the disk usage for now. – Abhishek Agarwal – 2016-09-17T17:44:21.510
1@AbhishekAgarwal ok, thanks for the reply. More RAM causes less paging so yeah, this improves the situation – magicandre1981 – 2016-09-17T18:10:11.520
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You can hit Ctr + Shift + Esc and when task manager opens press the startup tab and you can disable processes that aren't necessary and have high impact.
Mason
Posted 2016-07-10T17:19:47.810
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System and compressed memory
i have seen this problem and 1 answer was disable all notifications and aplications go to settings, system, notifications and aplications and turn off all notifications (worked for me) and this http://appuals.com/100-disk-usage-by-system-and-compressed-memory-in-windows-10/
and for
Antimalware service executable
see the software credentials in properties and see if is a legit software if not Ctrl+Shift+Esc En task, find the file location an delete it and see if the program is in startup (i use CCleaner to clean/delete startup programs)
Good luck man hope it works
Aaronmaiden
Posted 2016-07-10T17:19:47.810
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I had to fix a Dell laptop today which was showing 100% Disk Usage. The issue got resolved when we switched the Power Plan to Balanced. It was running with Dell power mode which spiked up the CPU. The task manager was showing some other services and processes though.
Go to Power Options > Select Balanced (recommended) Setting
Rony Dennis
Posted 2016-07-10T17:19:47.810
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don't use Windows defender, install a 3rd party Anti-Virus tool – magicandre1981 – 2016-07-10T17:43:41.250
i was using avira up until now. The same problem was there too. – Abhishek Agarwal – 2016-07-10T18:00:09.790
Install the WPT (part of the Win10 SDK: https://dev.windows.com/en-us/downloads/windows-10-sdk), run WPRUI.exe, select First Level, CPU usage, DiskIO, FileIO and click to start. Now capture 1 minute of the DiskIO. After 1 minute click on Save. Zip the large ETL file into zip/RAR file, upload the zip (OneDrive, dropbox, google drive) and post the share link here.
– magicandre1981 – 2016-07-10T18:01:29.077do i need to install the entire sdk? its a 2.5 gb installation. – Abhishek Agarwal – 2016-07-10T18:17:37.080
only the Windows Performance Toolkit – magicandre1981 – 2016-07-11T04:19:05.210
Not really an answer but I have had the same experience with about 5 other computers which I have upgraded. After a day or two the high disk usage was gone - I don't know though what is causing it. Never had this problem again. How long are you using windows 10 now? – benjamin – 2016-07-11T08:55:48.970
Using it for over a year now. The problem was always there but its getting really bothersome these days. Cant work without something or the other crashing every other second. – Abhishek Agarwal – 2016-07-11T17:55:14.953
have you instaleld only the WPT and captured the trace? – magicandre1981 – 2016-07-12T04:58:14.050
@magicandre1981 yeah, Here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-LesTcmHNFySFJHSi1xdktBQWs/view?usp=sharing
– Abhishek Agarwal – 2016-07-12T16:18:48.070