OS: Windows 10 (Pre-Installed)
RAM: 8GB
Storage: 500GB free
Processor: i5
Disk Type: Hard Drive
I have had Windows 10 for over a year now and it has been fine (a part from corruption about 6 months ago).
However, yesterday, I got an update for Windows 10 as well as uninstalling an old driver and installing a new one for a graphics tablet I just got. Today, I noticed games running slower than usual and freezing sometimes.
Task Manager and Resource Manager both say my disk is at 100% usage:
I'm not sure if this is related to the drivers or update. I tried reverting to the previous Windows 10 update, as well as uninstalling the driver, but nothing changed.
I have tried many suggestions from the web such as:
- Disabling Superfetch, Windows Search, BITS
- Editing the AHCI in the registry
None of them worked.
I am doing an anti-virus scan currently.
Any ideas what I could do?
EDIT:
Many people have been pointing out that McAfee is taking up a lot of the disk usage. This is because I was running a scan during the screenshot. Without McAfee scanning, it is still at 100% disk usage overall, but McAfee is not up there.
Not sure if this changes anything.
EDIT 2:
Found a fix.
See my answer, below.
Best Answer
The data come from the disk controller (Microsoft explained it in the video at 6m55 seconds). The disk controller tells Windows that the drive is busy and Windows displays it in the taskmanager graph.
In the graph you can see the McAfee is currently hitting the disk most, so it looks like it does a scan of your box.
The best option to prevent this is to use a SSD and not a traditional HDD.