100% Disk Usage in Windows? Here's How to Fix It!

Your computer is hanging. Same old Windows, right? Except you’re using a brand new Windows 8.x or Windows 10 device; you’ve only had it a few days. So just what is going on?

Investigating, you discover that your system drive is running at 100%. Surely this can’t be right? Sadly, it is. The latest versions of Windows have a problem with the drives being over worked, which slows down the operating system. This issue affects both hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid state drives (SSDs).

Several fixes are available for this, depending upon what exactly is causing the problem.

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[kool_wanderer]

I still wonder why microsoft is not coming up with a patch for this, when whole internet is talking about this issue.

[orbitalfire]

Makes more difficult trying to do these steps because my laptop keeps freezing for a minute every time I do something

[vsynccx]

Bro its 2020 and this is still a thing!


Edit: None of these worked anyone else got a fix?

[Siders]

This is such a lovely and professional video.
Clear and concise with short information and great visuals.
Organized because of the sections and difficulty settings you wrote on the handle of each section.

[rusty]

I fixed this by unninstalling WINDOWS 10 and installed MS DOS

[newguygaming]

Windows 10 is so bad. I miss windows 7.

[nickgraauwmans]

It happens when im copying large files or unzip large files. It slows down and keeps 100% even when its done. Also when im installing a game from steam or origin my 2 TB hdd from seagate will slow down and steam says hdd write error. But after many retrys its finally installed. I hate this so much. Im gonna try these tips tomorrow. Also when its 100% my pc wont shutdown for like 15 min. But wtf my os is running from Samsung 850 evo 500gb ssd. Seems like windows cant shutdown the hdd properly when its 100%. In taskmanager i see that the proces "System" is the problem. But i cant disable that because thats a part from windows thats needed. Im really confused.

[seikitomomi]

Your video is well-articulated and well thought out. Thank you for sharing it with us.

[RW-ijci]

I have brand new laptop that should be a beast and my 8 year old netbook runs better than it because of this disk usage crap.

[aznorhakim]

Oh thank you so much I disabled window search and it went down to the 80s and after disabling superfetch it went to 0-5

[nanand.r]

My laptop fan sounds like a ferrari because of this

[Josh-jhjk]

Thank you so much! Stopping "Windows Search" fixed the issue.

[hayesdlhs]

Wtf...I literally did nothing...and only typed in the words for first step and before I hit enter...disk use was back to 2%....it's as if the windows monster knew I was about to figure it out so it hid. It will be back though.

[gregorwhipps]

I found this very usefull! Problem was solved after stoping/disabling windows search (step1) however I fallowed the remaing steps as they seemed valuble never the less. Much appreciated sir.

[nathanielritter]

My disc usage went from 100% 24/7 to 1% - 5% consistently
My problem was superfetch. VERY USEFUL VIDEO!!!

[TonyButterworthPhoto]

Thank you, thank you, thank you! My PC is now running a zillion times faster! I was thinking I’d have to buy a new one but now I can hang onto this one for a while longer.... 🙂

[dothethinking]

Oh my god!! This is really amazing, i literally fixed my laptop by going back to windows 7😞😞

[mafia]

I dont have msisupported help me. Theres only default option in my pc for PCI ISSUE.

[america]

Thank you very much. My gaming PC I spent thousands on and have had for three years now finally runs like I always thought it should. I didnt even know it was an issue until I was looking for a fix for long loading times on Rust, I thought it was just normal for a PC to is 100% while gaming. Thank you very much for the fixes my good fellow and enjoy the rest of your year :)

[candmatt]

Thank you SO much, I have been plagued by this for months now and was unable to play games due to the stuttering, quickly identified 100% disk usage as the issue but could not find a fix, the PCI driver fix has seemed to worked and been staring at my D drive activity for 20 minutes and whereas before it was constantly spiking up and down 20-50% then every so often hitting 100% for long periods it is now flat 0%!

Do you have anywhere I could drop some funds your way as a small thankyou?