Windows 10 Extremely High Disk Usage

Alohacajun

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Apr 30, 2016
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I've been having this problem for a while now. Almost every day my computer's disk usage spikes up to 95-100% for about an hours or so. There are two system process responsible for this under the names of "Service Host: Local System (Network Restricted) (14)" and "System and Compressed Memory". The latter process never gave me trouble until about a week ago. When I go into Task Manager Performance and check the disk, only Read is sky high, Write is usually low. Also, "System and Compressed Memory" uses +200.0 Mb when my system is completely idle.
EDIT: New to the forums, not sure where this would go.
 

Ryan_78

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when windows boots up it does sort of a registry scan of the HDD. if you have stuff like memory dumps and extra stuff it would take longer. Run a HDD cleanup program like CCleaner. it helps remove the extra stuff. then you should be fine. That's exactly what I did for my pc