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Disk Usage
- Thread starter PiXeL
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Check task manager to see what is taking up the disk usage. If you have Defender installed it is most likely the Anti malware scanner running a scan on startup.
when first powered up, there is a bunch of updates, telemetry, maintenance, and background services that get run.
yes, they should die down very quickly, but if you haven't used the PC for a while, or have slow internet, or the planets aren't aligned, this can take longer.
turn the PC on, then walk away for an hour - is the disk usage still high?
if yes, you have a running process doing something to the drive - defrag?, malware scan?, windows update?
and as Bastet said, Task Manager will tell you which one.
yes, they should die down very quickly, but if you haven't used the PC for a while, or have slow internet, or the planets aren't aligned, this can take longer.
turn the PC on, then walk away for an hour - is the disk usage still high?
if yes, you have a running process doing something to the drive - defrag?, malware scan?, windows update?
and as Bastet said, Task Manager will tell you which one.
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