Ever since I started using Windows 10, every time I opened the Task Manager in detailed view, the disk usage activity always touched the mark of 100%. If not a century, it was always above 90% which was quite odd. For the first few days, I thought that it might be because of the heavy video rendering that I did on my PC for our YouTube channel related work. But after a few weeks I realized that even while my system was idle with no major background processes running, it was hitting the 100% mark just for disk usage. The CPU state was mostly idle, going from just 2 to 10%.
It was enough to convince me that it’s not the workload that’s causing my PC to be slow all the time with obnoxious disk usage. It was time to find a solution and after hours of online research, I managed to find out some working tricks. These tips solved the issue on my PC and now my computer shows decent disk usage with a significant improvement in performance.
So if you too are facing similar issues on your Windows 10 computer, here are the 4 things that you should check on your PC.
Is using A LOT of ressources even if i do not use Office at the moment. This service appeared as soon i installed office and takes resources for about 10 mins after every boot. Unknown/other; /; Windows 10; /; Office 365 Home. It may sometimes consume a high disk usage due to document cache. If the Microsoft Compatibility Telemetry process has recently started causing very high disk usage on your Windows 10 system, don't worry. Here are the easy solutions to fix Microsoft Compatibility Telemetry. Disable Microsoft Compatibility Telemetry by Group Policy Editor. Press the Windows logo key + R then type gpedit.msc and click OK.
Note: If you are not sure what your disk usage in Windows 10 is, right-click on the taskbar to open up Task Manager and here enable the detailed view. In the Processes tab, you can see the CPU, Memory, and Disk Usage on your computer.
Disable Windows Search
The first thing you must check out is the Windows Search services which are kind of buggy and cause Windows 10 on your computer to enter a search loop. Once Windows 10 enters the search loop, it starts indexing files over and again which cause the high disk usage with minimal CPU and Memory usage. I am not sure when Microsoft is going to take care of this bug, but the only option you can go with is to disable the Windows Search Properties permanently. To get started, open up Windows’ Run box and execute the command services.msc.
Once the Services window opens up, look for Windows Search and double click on it to open up the properties page. Here, the first thing you should do is click on Stop to immediately stop the service and then change the Startup Type to Disabled. That’s all, save the settings and after some time, you should notice an improvement in the disk usage activity. But if you still have the issue, don’t worry, there are still a few things you can try.
Disable Superfetch Services
The next thing you can try is to disable Superfetch services from services.msc window itself. Superfetch service caches data to RAM so that it can be immediately available to your application. Unfortunately, the service is not always right about which software you’re going to use and can keep your hard drive busy for minutes after booting and closing applications.
While disabling the Superfetch service, make sure you stop it first and then change the Startup Type to Disabled.
Disable Windows 10 Tips
Disabling the above two services did the trick for me, but if you still are not seeing any improvement, you can try a tip I read on Reddit. A few users suggested to open Windows 10 settings and then navigate to Notifications & actions. Here turn off Show me Tips about Windows and that’s all. It should just take a minute or two before you see the results.
I haven’t tried this myself, but from the comments on the Reddit page, it looks like that the trick is working for users and is definitely worth a shot.
Conclusion
Those were the few tips you can try to get the Windows Disk usage to behave. If none of them works for you, I am afraid it might be because of some malware on your computer and you might have to disinfect the Windows 10 or clean install from the scratch in a hope that the issue is fixed.
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- Disable Microsoft Compatibility Telemetry By Group Policy Editor
- Use Registry Editor to Fix It
- Clear Up the Running Memory to Speed Up Your Computer
'Microsoft Compatibility Telemetry is using 50% of my disk usage and it's making my PC very slow and annoying.'
Microsoft Compatibility Telemetry is a service in Windows 10 which Contains technical data about the how the Windows devices and its related software is working and send this data periodically to Microsoft so as to enhance the user experience by fixing the Potential issues that occur.
If the Microsoft Compatibility Telemetry process has recently started causing very high disk usage on your Windows 10 system, don't worry. Here are the easy solutions to fix Microsoft Compatibility Telemetry.
Solution 1. Disable Microsoft Compatibility Telemetry by Group Policy Editor
Press the Windows logo key + R then type gpedit.msc and click OK.
Go to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Data Collection and Preview Builds.
Double-click Allow Telemetry.
Select Disabled, then click OK.
Now, you can go to your task manager to check whether it works or not. If this does not work very well, please the second solution.
Solution 2. Use Registry Editor to Fix It
Press the Windows logo key + R then type regedit in the box and click OK.
Click 'YES' when prompted by User Account Control.
Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SOFTWARE > Policies > Microsoft > Windows > DataCollection
Right-click on DataCollection and choose New > DWORD (32-bit) Value. Then name the new value Allow Telemetry then double-click Allow Telemetry
Set Value date to 0 (zero) and click OK
Solution 3. Clear up the Running Memory to Speed up Your PC
If, after trying the above, your PC is running slow, it's time to clear up the running memory to speed up your computer right now.
Clear up running memory appropriately will low disk usage and make your PC faster. Follow the simple steps to solve the high disk usage problem. First, download the free clear up tool - EaseUS free partition software, then follow the steps.
Step 1: Launch EaseUS Partition Master. Select 'Tools' and click 'System Optimization'.
Step 2: Click 'Junk File Cleanup'. Then you can click 'Analyze' to let EaseUS Partition Master find junk files on your PC.
Step 3: You can check and choose junk files and click Clean up. All of the selected junk files will be cleaned and deleted from your PC. Click 'Yes' to clean up junk files.
When you finish all the steps, reboot your Windows 10. Go to Task Manager to see if the disk usage is normal.