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Re: 100% Disk Usage

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On Thursday 28 December 2023 at 17:36:35 UTC, Boris wrote:
> I've got an Inspiron 5559 laptop, purchsed May of 2016. Runs Windows 10 
> Home, fully updated. Hard drive is only 33% full, 8GB memory. It's been 
> running fine until about 9 months ago when it started to slow down upon 
> starting, launching programs, and shutting down. Task Manager shows the 
> hard drive is at 100% usage. It takes about 20 minutes for the hard 
> drive to settle down to where I can use the machine. But, even when 
> settled down, it takes about one to two minutes to launch a program, i.e. 
> Photos, Media Player...to where I can use the program. Once launched, it 
> works fine. 
> 
> I've searched for fixes to "100% disk usage", but nothing has worked. 
> I've watched what's running at start up by using the Resource Monitor, 
> but there's so many things running there that keep changing places, it's 
> hard to identify something to further track down. 
> 
> There's a lot of Dell programs running in Resource Monitor, but even when 
> those finally appear at the bottom of the list, other programs take their 
> place and the hard drive is still at 100%. 
> 
> Anyone left here that's solved this issue? 
> 
> I'm getting to the point where I may do a clean install.

Windows Update.  Guaranteed.

Microsoft have form.

If you disabled updates in XP then they simply sent a command to cause svchost.exe to max out your CPU and make your system unuseable.

https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/windows-xp-svchost-exe-consuming-100-cpu.2902369/

If you turned Windows Updates back on the problem just went away.

Be wary, very wary, of anything Bill Gates has ever had his mucky paws near.

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