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Got a new Asus laptop with Windows 10 is always getting pounded by Disk usage = 100% when starting, booting, and then at various points of the day.
I reformatted my windows 10 machine to try to fix it. It was much faster for a few days then got slow again. I have scanned the machine, no viruses or malware that I know of.
I see all sorts of Disk pounders like:
- Microsoft Compatibility Telemetry
- Cortana
- Superfetch
- Search indexer
- WMI
- Other Service Hosts like Windows Event Log
- Antimalware executable
There may be more to this list, and I only see Windows-system executables and services. Once again, no reason to believe I have malware. Fresh system here.
This being a vanilla system with only Starcraft 2
installed is totally killing me how it's so slow upon startup/standby. My mac and linux machines do not suffer this affliction.
Is anyone else dealing with this on the regular? How can I get my windows PC so that it comes back from standby without having disk usage shoot up to 100% for several minutes? I'm about to leave Windows forever. Could it somehow be my laptop hard drive in the Asus N550JX?
I have read each of the following and verified that I am not afflicted by any of the things listed in these other posts:
Windows 8 extremely high disk usage and slow IO
- This post talks about windows 8 and is about a system that was used for a while getting worse over time. Mine is a vanilla system.
- I do not have ACHI devices
Windows 10 100% Disk Usage after Startup
- I already have an SSD that came with this laptop.
Related: Windows 8 extremely high disk usage and slow IO
– Ramhound – 2017-06-01T14:34:22.500Windows 10 100% Disk Usage after Startup – DavidPostill – 2017-06-01T14:35:23.550
Not at all the same question as either one of those 2. Only loosely related with a few tips that might intersect. Has nothing to do with AHCI etc – Nicholas DiPiazza – 2017-06-01T14:35:25.650
https://superuser.com/questions/1182651/windows-10-100-disk-usage-after-startup - this one might be related those other two are not – Nicholas DiPiazza – 2017-06-01T14:36:02.310
You indicated there is high disk usage, the possible duplicate specifically mentions this is a possible problem, with your AHCI driver. Please post your analyst, that rules out the problem, described in the possible duplicate I suggested. – Ramhound – 2017-06-01T14:38:00.953
Have you tried to disable Cortana? You can't disable Telemetry since you are not using Windows 10 Enterprise. If you were to disable,
SuperFetch
, your performance would decrease. You could disable the search indexer, but that would of course, prevent you from indexing your files on your system. Windows Event log isn't the problem. – Ramhound – 2017-06-01T14:44:56.250Have you verified your disk is healthy? Long period of times, being unable to access folders and (for example starting task manager), is often associated with a failing disk due to the long I/O events. Windows will eventually invalidate those I/O requests but it takes awhile. – Ramhound – 2017-06-01T14:44:59.377
i'm going to try a completely separate SSD to verify this is not the problem. I will let you know. – Nicholas DiPiazza – 2017-06-01T14:47:26.613
Use WPT to analyze the issue instead of hibernation select standby/resume. Drag & drop Disk activity graph to analyze pane and analyze it
– magicandre1981 – 2017-06-01T16:42:17.063Take a boot trace with Windows Performance Toolkit you can download from here: Windows Performance Toolkit Here is a tutorial on how to record a boot trace: How to use wpr to record boot sequence Compress the trace and shere it.
– None – 2017-06-02T10:36:44.843Update - When I replaced the hard drive with a Samsung solid state drive, now the computer is blazing fast. – Nicholas DiPiazza – 2017-07-06T02:49:31.387