100% Disk Usage in Windows 10 Fix Tips

[@Britec09]

What could cause high disk usage in Windows 10? Drop us a LIKE 👍

[@id-10-terror7]

You forgot to put the links in the description

[@akms828]

In my experience, superfetch and windows defender.

[@birdshots]

First item on your list ...disk failing...was my problem. Did a chkdsk to block the bad sectors then a scanow to get the system back to normal. Cloned the spinning to a ssd.

[@TeksonikAudio]

Why delete my comment about the Windows service "WaaSMedic Agent.exe" ? It is responsible for high disk usage and serious system degradation.

[@CoMmAnDrX]

@@akms828 I've been disabling SuperFetch/SysMain and Windows Search on clients system running a mechanical drive. It improves their performance greatly. I do offer a SSD upgrade but most choose not to go with the upgrade.

[@geojohnson5613]

Thank you Brian. All good suggestions on 100% disk usage. It's maddening when get a system with that issue.

[@Britec09]

Yeah, so many things it could be.

[@Richie016]

Software utilities used in this video, are greatly useful for fixing hard drive performance and error messages in windows.

[@Britec09]

sure does

[@malminstral]

@@Britec09 Except the WD Dashboard only scans WD drives, I have 2 and it is good for them but my 3rd drive is something else and the Dashboard does not see it.

[@jerrytaz6982]

I cant thank you enough. I have had this problem for years and nothing I have done has fixed it. Turns out the issue for me was the sysdm.cpl and that, thank God, was the first thing I tried. I was getting 100% disk usage at start up and it would stay that way for hours and even days. I just rebooted twice and disk usage drops down to 10 to 30% almost immediately. I am going to try some of the other tips if I run into issues again. Thank you for a great video.

[@Deliriant3]

Beautiful! Was able to fix my disk usage after the PAGEFILE step , got a decent working machine again thank you!

[@realfaw]

How is your health mate? Saw your community post about being covid positive. Hope everythings fine :))

[@williamlinington9166]

I use a programme called "Everything". It beats the snot out of Windows search. You are sounding better Brian.

[@Britec09]

I am getting better William, thank you.

[@seanmcgoldrick4870]

Everything search is the best by miles

[@sagarbhadouria5915]

Thanks man.. that's what i needed from a long time! 🤝

[@Britec09]

No problem 👍

[@charlesxix]

What I'm confused about is that so many people came across the problem three or 4 months back more or less round about the same time. Was Microsoft doing something? Thanks for for another great video, hope you're coming on OK.

[@intuitive.scorpio]

Thanks so much for making this video. I had a lot of these issues. Very helpful and thorough help tips. ✅💯

[@kevintanaka4351]

Glad to hear from you, again. Hope all is well with your health.

[@Britec09]

Getting better

[@fatriantobong]

thank you for this video, the pagefile rebooting works wonder, went thru many videos from pros but none worked

[@obasaar68]

Hello, Thank you for some incredible advice and tips! As always I am grateful for your attention and your time!

[@Britec09]

You are so welcome!

[@Roasted_Bunny]

What’s the desktop wallpaper featured in this video?

[@Britec09]

not sure

[@michaelnorton6630]

Thank-you Brian - great video!!👍🏻 This is one of the problems I dread the most when a customer brings their PC/laptop into the shop as it's effectively working though a process of illimination on a machine running like a dog!!🐶 One thing I also do as a matter of course after running a full anti-virus scan is run a second opinion malware scanner such as Malwarebytes and then run Windows SFC to check & fix any potentially corrupted files.

[@Britec09]

Malware is a video on its own, you can't rely on one scan from one program

[@MichaelCaliri]

That indexing thing did it for me on my laptop Thanx

[@watup110875]

@6:14 I always multiply 1.5 x whatever the ram is, say 4096x1.5=6144. Seems to do fine

[@MrPopalosus]

Hey Brian, how do you turn off indexing permanently ? You never got around to demonstrating it. This video has been immensely helpful for me. Thanks !

[@NightGamerForLife]

Thank you learned a few more things to try to look for before I wipe the customers computer. usually see if old HDD replace if not remove any free anti virus they have update pc full if not solved then just back up personal data and important appdata then wipe clean.

[@sediqullahsarwary103]

Well explained. Thanks

[@Setanyahu]

tq bro, my 100% disk solve after clear the page file.

[@ethimself5064]

Realtek Audio has been at 2013 forever. Nice to know a new update is available. It will likely reset to default settings. When this happens one's audio volume will reduce radically. I found a fix for this - not remember now. I will post a setting to fix if this happens.

[@breakingthe4thwall260]

seems like i have noticed some driver installer programs have their own data base an others scan the actual manufactures data bases. Great video brian gonna save this one for if i ever need it.being as i am always working on other peoples machines i probably will need it.

[@Britec09]

Glad it will be of some use

[@primoroy]

Every time I startup or reboot my computer I get about 10 or 15 minutes 100% disk usage that eventually dies down. Very frustrating because the computer is very sluggish. I'll go through this list to see if anything helps.

[@bantymech8242]

Hey Brian nice video. You can also right click on the drive and click properties and uncheck the file "allow all files to be indexed" which should be unchecked and hopefully this fixes and you can also get some performance in writing and reading disks especially on mechanical hard drives. And a disk cleanup is recommended.👍😉

[@Britec09]

That is correct

[@hallmonitor98]

Apply changes to subfolders and files?

[@markae0]

@@hallmonitor98 I did subfolders and files and it is taking a lot of time to do EVERYTHING on-in the drive.

[@steviekek]

Yassssssss Was looking for a quick vid to watch...thx

[@Britec09]

Hope you like it!

[@Gabbynaut]

Mr Brit. can you help me with a little thing ? i have like a reset of \Device\RaidPort0 and sometimes the pc freeze like for 30 secs or 1 min. can use everything but sometimes freeze all things. i try a lot of things but still the problem and idk if is the SSD or some driver u.u. ty.

[@deaddevilking]

awesome vid thanks for the help

[@Levi_02]

my computer has gotten better thanks to your tips thanks bro

[@Britec09]

Glad to hear it!

[@Levi_02]

@@Britec09 much love from the philippines

[@ericcarver8363]

Welcome back!

[@Britec09]

Good to be back

[@outlawstarr5209]

Very informative. Thank you.

[@Britec09]

Glad it was helpful!

[@gernblanston4956]

Killary Clinton gives Bleach Bit a big thumbs up

[@ethimself5064]

A lot of territory covered/Thanks👍👍

[@Britec09]

No problem 👍

[@NightGamerForLife]

If you could show a simple video on how you back up customer data (non commercial) including google(user data) if you do. always happy to see your way of doing thing as I learn more ways and things I didn't think about.

[@Britec09]

Great suggestion!

[@tcm9394]

Good information, thanks for your effort. Stay safe.

[@Britec09]

Thanks, you too!

[@kiney4473]

my ssd boots up in like 5 minutes and is then at 100% all the time i allready got a new ssd and that didnt fix the problem also did a fresh windows install. is my ram or my motherboard broken? dont know what to do anymore

[@MrJavix09]

Great information and video....but where are the links to the software mentioned?

[@Britec09]

In the description

[@uhn100]

I find the antimalware service uses a lot of performance and I have been unable to turn it off any suggestions

[@johnhammond3482]

western digitial dashboard dont work i keep getting a message cannot detect drives when i have installed it i have tryed it on windows 10 home 64bit and windoes 8,1 pro 64bit it just wont work

[@VSTV1993]

Adobe Acrobat DC was my culprit

[@Aqtv.]

Hey Britec I really like your content would it be possible for you to do a video about useful programs to have installed

[@dennisbatchos4232]

Long time follower, thank you for the great ideas. You might want to consider letting users know there could me a cost associated with product you recommend. Not meant to sound like a critical comment, please. You are the best, kind regards!

[@Britec09]

Yeah, its a trial version, I don't use driver updaters, I use manufacturer websites

[@johnsenchak1428]

I find that the swap/page file will lock up a computer when you are running a browser with a huge amounts of taps open, even using a SSD drive You should have mentioned the program system internals to find out processes that run at 100 percent

[@Britec09]

Yeah, wanted to keep this as basic as possible

[@nicviolaris281]

Thanks Brian. This video is very helpful. Are you able to do a video on a problem when upgrading from Windows 10 to Windows 11. During the upgrade I get a message "We couldn't update the system reserved partition". Is this fixable? Based on the web it seems to be a common problem. In other terms my computer meets all requirements for Windows 11. Cheers

[@Britec09]

System Reserved Partition may be full, try extending that partition

[@nicviolaris281]

@@Britec09 thanks Brian. I am searching for ways to do that without loosing data.

[@SliceGamer]

Bro my disk health shows caution. What should i do

[@TheUnaBoomer]

You earned a subscriber

[@nickbrown4762]

Nice tutorial, thanks you.

[@Britec09]

You are welcome!

[@ethimself5064]

Storage Sense - mine is turned off as it rarely showed anything. I clear unwonted files by: Disc Cleanup, Ccleaner. Prefetch Delete, Task Manager/Google files and Chrome History and Cached Images and Files. I truly wish there was a method of controlling the size of the Prefetched files as I find that if they get too big things slow down, likely in the range of 5MB+. I have also noticed that at about 2+ MB of Windows Log Files will slow down things as I have noticed time and time again when I delete then via Ccleaner my computer instantly speeds up - I spend 99% of my time in KZbin. Wow, quite the story 🙄

[@keithdalitso5175]

Would downgrading to an earlier version of windows 10 fix this problem?

[@Britec09]

No

[@IITeeKayII]

Mine comes and goes, itll just randomly hit 100%, ill do a bunch of stuff to try and fix it and it wont help, itll then drop to 0 for a few weeks

[@jayman6905]

I had this problem and the only sure solution I found was buy an ssd, clone your HDD and replace it. Everything else as suggested by many like sysmain etc made very little and very temporary difference

[@firedevzz]

Hi does Toshiba have a dashboard so like your wd drive did? I have an nvme ssd, but i couldn't find any monitoring software from Toshiba.

[@Britec09]

You can still use that software with Toshiba hard drives

[@firedevzz]

@@Britec09 okay! Thanks a lot Britec! Keep the good work up 👍

[@OlettaLiano]

An informative video, thanks. Fortunately, I'm having no disk problems at the current time. All of my drives are NVMe Gen4 M.2's.

[@Britec09]

Thanks for sharing

[@PinkManGuy]

Uhhh, okay?? What are we supposed to check in Crystal Disk Info???????

[@cravisbouyin4864]

Hi Brian, how are you doing buddy? Hope things are pumping for you? Keep it real buddy!

[@ethimself5064]

WD Support for any mechanical drive? Not mentioned. 👍👍As usual

[@Britec09]

Yes it supports all mechanical drive

[@ethimself5064]

@@Britec09 Kool - Great advice

[@lerssilarsson6414]

Just waitin' for the patch, update or whatever...

[@bryanbluez6705]

I love you thank you 😊

[@Britec09]

You're welcome 😊

[@welshtony1]

Dang this is allot of info, my poor head haha Will come in handy next time this happens

[@Britec09]

You love it

[@Ricovette]

Thank you so much for this upload! Thumbs up from me as usual... Stay safe... Rico

[@Britec09]

Thank you! You too!

[@TWOBITONEGUY]

This really kills me when I use my laptop for me what I can see is the windows update it take about ten hours to update

[@calvingonzales6563]

Great video

[@Britec09]

Thanks!

[@TeksonikAudio]

Why delete my comment about the Windows service "WaaSMedic Agent.exe" ? It is responsible for high disk usage and serious system degradation.

[@Britec09]

I did not delete your comment

[@panikos405]

Hello britec09 I have 100% usage of cpu when I start my pc after my usage is normal around 20-30%, I open task manager and order the process with cpu usage and I saw system take 50% and after system interupt like 20-25%, should I reinstall windows 10 with your method without losing data will fix this problem ?

[@tomyyoung2624]

Yes ps2??

[@Joseph1NJ]

What are the first four words he opens every video with? What you guys got?

[@andrewlock3480]

Usually Ram, HDD fault in my experience

[@Britec09]

Memory leaks are also a problem

[@ethanwin99]

the last tip if nothing works just buy an ssd

[@R.O.T.C._SEEM]

Yeah I'm about to because this crap is ridiculous. $1800 laptop runs like my mom's computer from 99 pc

[@daveadams6421]

What I've found over the years is that too many people have too much junk running on their systems Numerous apps running at startup and in the background - most of which is never actually used but installed by vendors. Get rid of this type of crud 😎

[@Britec09]

yeah I agree

[@WrestlingFace]

👑🖥️🚑

[@Britec09]

You love it

[@zwz.zdenek]

When a drive is failing, the system always hangs when it hits the bad sector. I've never had it cause still working slowdowns. In practice, it mostly happens when somebody decides to upgrade an underpowered PC with the new Windows. Just suck up the fact that you need to buy hardware to get a good user experience.

[@NightGamerForLife]

Slow Spinney Disk that is 10 years old usually the case then you replace it to real SSD and it's good. If SSD is slow it's usually defective or more rarely had some corrupted windows services that went nuts over time on machines that didn't do regular updates

[@ComeonWindows]

If you're getting 100% disk usage on an nvme drive, you've got something wrong at the software level for sure.

[@fikriardiansyah9185]

Or maybe it can be a defect product

[@Anirbansinha24]

Nothing works, get an ssd,

[@Britec09]

everyone should have the main drive as SSD in 2021

[@Anirbansinha24]

@@Britec09 yup

[@cravisbouyin4864]

🙂😏👱🤞

[@thenuwarabandara9431]

first

[@flipflopski2951]

MX Linux with Plasma desktop... Fixed!

[@glinssimon1747]

1 659

[@NoneYaBiz5]

All these suggestions are completely useless. Either wipe the drive and do a fresh install or upgrade to a SSD to solve the issue.

[@jnjfeelnbest8648]

poor sound

[@Britec09]

sound is fine, must be your end.