Disk usage at 100% (windows 10)

ajmcgrady3 · Apr 2, 2018

I've been having this problem since i bought my computer a few weeks ago brand new from Best Buy. When i click anything it sometimes takes 10 seconds to open up chrome...i check task manager and disk usage is at 100%. When gaming it is super laggy when turning my camera and walking around (happens on all games and changing quality and graphics setting has no impact even from ultra to the worst possible settings has no impact on fps) so this problem is not spec related, it is something on windows 10 slowing me down i believe. On the same game i get smooth high fps after restarting the computer sometimes. It almost seems like a virus but I've had McAfee pro anti virus on my computer since the second i got this computer. When i exit out of games it takes like 2 minutes for the disk usage to come back down from 100%, then it gets smooth enough where i can click chrome or whatever other app. I've been on hundreds of forums and nobody is smart enough to come up with a solution (already tried all the suggestions)...Please guys, don't be like everyone else, fix my problem and you will be my hero.

Specs:

Ryzen 5 1400
RX 580
8GB Ram
bazooka gaming motherboard
1tb hard drive (880gb free)

dadestroye · Apr 2, 2018

I had this a few months ago. Google your problem, and you will see that it is a very common glitch with Windows. Try disabling skype, and uninstalling Chrome. You can find other fixes online.

ajmcgrady3 · Apr 3, 2018

dadestroye :

How do i disable Skype?

dadestroye · Apr 3, 2018

ajmcgrady3 :

Google it. Research your problem. From what I remember, you go onto add/or remove programs, then click on skype. It won't let you uninstall it, but you can disable it. If that doesn't work, try opening skype, then going in the settings. Just research it. Google "how to uninstall skype"

ajmcgrady3 · Apr 3, 2018

dadestroye :

ajmcgrady3 :

Google it. Research your problem. From what I remember, you go onto add/or remove programs, then click on skype. It won't let you uninstall it, but you can disable it. If that doesn't work, try opening skype, then going in the settings. Just research it. Google "how to uninstall skype"

I uninstalled Skype, is that good enough?

dadestroye · Apr 3, 2018

ajmcgrady3 :

dadestroye :

I uninstalled Skype, is that good enough?

There are many fixes. Again, research it. There are many different ways to fix it.

ajmcgrady3 · Apr 3, 2018

dadestroye :

ajmcgrady3 :

There are many fixes. Again, research it. There are many different ways to fix it.

I did research it, and applied every so called "fix", nothing worked.

doolittle · Apr 3, 2018

use the Resource Monitor to see what process is using up disk resources - once you open up resmon just click on the disk tab and then click on the "Total (B/sec)" column to sort by usage.

Once you locate the process, then search up to see what the problem is. A common one is MsMpEng.Exe Causing High CPU And Disk Usage which is Windows Defender.

ajmcgrady3 · Apr 4, 2018

doolittle :

I wish it were that simple, the disk goes to 100% with little to no usage in processes.

Colif · Apr 4, 2018

which brand is the hdd? I assume you don't know so run the free version of HDTune on the drive, and look on the health tab, it will tell us if drive is okay and also what brand it is

Have you got an app on PC called MSI Live update 6? If not, depending on if this is right motherboard, it is the 1st item in the utility tab here - https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/support/B350M-BAZOOKA#down-driver&Win10%2064

run Live update 6 and confirm you have the latest drivers as excessive drive action can be a driver bug.

run a clean boot and see if its same - careful to read instructions and make sure NOT to close all Microsoft services, or PC won't boot right - https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/help/929135/how-to-perform-a-clean-boot-in-windows

if that changes the behaviour its likely its a start up program causing the problem, slowly re apply them to find cause, then we see why.

doolittle · Apr 4, 2018

ajmcgrady3 :

Hmm the only time I have seen that is when the drive is taking errors - check your event viewer / windows logs / system logs (right-click on the win10 start button and select "event viewer", open up "windows logs" and select "system") and see if you have any disk errors.

The health check / smart stats is also a very good idea to check in hdtune.

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ajmcgrady3 · Apr 4, 2018

doolittle :

I found tons of errors. Just as i was opening the system logs it took about a minute to fully open and unfreeze, i checked the task manager and disk was at 100% of course... i went in deeper to find this program - "tmmc.exe" (or something similar) at the highest amount and went away when my disk usage went down. I checked the logs afterwards and it showed an error for what just happened at the same time it happened. I also have many other errors that is showing.

Colif · Apr 6, 2018

just a note: event viewer will always have errors in it, even on a PC that has no problems at all. Many of the errors can be ignored in there (I generally try not to look in event viewer)

tried HDTune yet?

ajmcgrady3 · Apr 10, 2018

Colif :

Yes, i tried it. Everything is good with my hard drive health wise i'm pretty sure. I think it's windows 10 that's the problem.

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