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I tried multiple things last year to fix it, and eventually got fed up and left it be. Now I need the laptop to replace another computer, so I need it working. I watched official Dell support videos on this issue, and nothing in the video helped me. I disabled SuperFetch, Windows Search, etc. I did a hard drive scan with support assist. I finally decided to reset the computer to factory settings and removing all my files.

The issue is still there. No other programs are open or installed since I did the factory reset. I again disabled SuperFetch and Windows Search, still not helping at all. I have screenshots of my System info and my resource monitor. Any help would be appreciated. Go to Solution. I too am a user. View solution in original post. Some services of windows make an intensive usage of HD, please check in services. Some services are innecessary for home users, please verify. In services. The answer their is \”No Fix\” is false.

Just say you don\’t know the answer. My answer would be to reinstall the OS. If MacAfee is installed you may need to uninstall it as this could be the reason it\’s maxing out. SSD are fairly reasonable now so this may be a better option performance wise but I would do further research before giving up. I had windows 7 with no issues. Then i stupidly upgrade to win Tried to downgrade to windows 7 but can\’t figure it out. Browse Community.

Turn on suggestions. Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type. It\’s been like it for well over an hour. There\’s no noise from the HDD though.

I can\’t believe that it\’s really being accessed. I\’m now stuck for ideas. I can\’t see another clean install helping. Does anyone have any ideas for fixing this? I\’m just checking AnaMedina3\’s link to a suggested fix sorry, I must have missed it as I scrolled past earlier.

I haven\’t heard of that particular cause before, so it\’s certainly worth looking into. I can\’t test it yet anyway: my Inspiron still won\’t let me do anything. I\’m back in! It\’s only taken about three hours. It didn\’t last long. Became unresponsive again after a few minutes. Not long enough to even check the AHCI driver.

However, after another wait, I had another window of opportunity and managed to get the process completed although a system restore point took a lot longer to create than usual. On restart it began a check and fix of C:, so maybe there is a hardware issue with the HDD after all. Previous manual disk checks all came up clean. Right, I seem to have solved the problem!

Or maybe I haven\’t, and the problem has just abated, as it sometimes seems to do – only to pop up again a few days later. I tried the MSI solution – no improvement after a restart. No change after a restart. Then I did something I thought I\’d already gone through: I checked for any software that might be causing a problem, uninstalling anything I no longer needed and restarting after two or three uninstalls restarts took so long, I couldn\’t face doing it after every uninstall.

So I have to conclude that it was one of these that was the root cause. Not the software itself, as I hadn\’t used either for some time. But maybe one of them was causing multiple svchosts to spawn which explains why System was often top of the HDD usage list. I then – as a test – reinstalled Filelocator Pro. The disk usage immediately jumped up again, and I thought \”Gotcha! I\’ve removed it again though. I\’ll do more tests to get to the bottom of this, but I have a sneaking suspicion that these are red herrings – that the problem just subsided as it has done so often in the past.

The only difference is that it\’s not freezing on me now. Windows Updates have been paused for 7 days, but sure enough, those pesky update processes are still floating up to the top of the Task Manager listing.

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1. Use Windows shortcut keys Win + R to launch Run. 2. Type replace.me and press the Enter. 3. Locate to the Superfetch. 4. Double click the. I have a new Dell PC – Intel Core i5, 12 GB RAM and 1 TB hard disk. I usually hibernate the computer to keep the same state. Reboot it once in a week.

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Mar 30,  · How To Fix % Disk Usage on Windows 10 version Windows 10 pro on an dell optiplex Making system image with Macrium reflect free is simple enough to try. You\’ll need only part 1 and 3 of tutorials below: I\’ve noticed Firefox is very high in disk usage statistics (also response wise). Read is very high. Aug 14,  · Hi, I recently bought DELL inspiron with 4GB RAM, HDD disk. This PC has been running so slow from the start, then I observed disk usage spinning %, I can\’t animate, open applications quickly, correctly run Visual Studio code, play high graphics games. I have tried up to various solutions, but still my disk usage is %. This thread is locked. May 12,  · Learn how to Fix % disk usage in Windows 10 because when your hard drive disk usage is stuck at % it’s no surprise that your PC doesn’t function well.