100% Disk Usage being blamed on Windows services

[veeg]

Thanks for the update.

[emmyg]

Hopefully this will be my second to last post on the issue! My new hard drive arrived and I am installing Windows 10 on it. If the issue still exists I doubt it’ll arise immediately (since reformatting a month ago seemed to temporarily fix it) so I’ll need to take some time to find out if the issue reappears.

If it doesn’t resurface after a week then I’ll reply commenting on it. If it does, well then I’ll probably break down and start crying or something. Fingers crossed!

[veeg]

ok..hopefully you will have it fixed.

[phillpower2]

Not heard back from you emmyg, do you still require assistance or is the issue now resolved, an update would be appreciated.

[emmyg]

I got another Windows update a couple days ago that I had to keep putting it off and I didn’t want to report back until I installed it since the entire issue began after an update was installed. But it looks like things are working fine! The first day with the new hard drive was spooky since I was still getting 100% usage, but I guess that was just cause Windows hadn’t yet installed a boatload of updates for stability and what not. After all the updates were completed the system has worked fine and I’ve experienced no other issues. I haven’t had to disable any Windows services, and I am back to running the programs I would usually keep open without any hiccups so far. I"ve kept Task Manager up to monitor the usage, but it hasn’t gone anywhere near 99% or 100% period after the first day of the reformat.

I think it’s safe to say that the issue was a dying hard drive, and that replacing it has solved it. Thanks for the help!

[jmarket]

Glad you got it resolved @emmyg Sometimes it’s a hardware failure after all.

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