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Windows 10 100% Disk Usage after Startup [duplicate]
After startup for 5 minutes, my system is very slow. The Task Manager shows that the disk usage is at 100%.
(Later this number is around 2-4 %, but sometimes for 1-2 minutes goes up again at 100%.)
I ...
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WinDirStat shows 244GB unknown space on external drive
I recently noticed that one of my external hard drive seems to be missing a lot of space. It was recommended that I try WinDirStat, as it could help identify how much space each file was taking up. ...
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How can I clone a Windows 10 disk onto a larger disk?
I have bought a larger SSD for my Windows 10 machine and an external USB enclosure and now I would like to transfer the content of the Windows 10 system disk onto the new SSD and eventually replace ...
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System and compressed memory and system interrupts takes 40% of the cpu
I searched a lot about this online and couldn't find a solution, I turned off fast startup as many answers have suggested. But it didn't work ,
The problem happened after I connected a secondary hard ...
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How to expand the Windows partition when the Recovery one is in the way?
My partitions on my primary disk look like this:
I would like to expand C: with the Unallocated space but the 946 MB Recovery partition is in the way.
Is there a way to swap the Recovery partition ...
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How do I know that a drive that is not labelled 'recovery' is actually the recovery drive?
I have a Blade Pro (2017). It currently has the following disks:
C - 226 GB SSD
D - 1.8 TB HDD
E - 499 MB HDD ("local disk")
The "Local Disk (E:)" is a bit of a mystery to me: it appears empty even ...
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How to clone a Windows 10 dell onto an SSD
I've recently bought a Dell Inspiron 3650, and would like to clone the disk onto a samsung SSD I have bought for it, in order to speed up boot times etc.
Samsung provide a clone tool called "Samsung ...
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How to remove "phantom" drive letters?
I recently attached two GPT-formatted USB hard drives to my Win10 workstation. I had to update the BCD store on them so I used Diskpart to assign letters S: and T: to the EFI partitions on the drives....
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Windows 10: No option to Eject External HARD DRIVE (NOT USB Stick)
When I plug in my external hard drive (again, NOT USB stick), and right click on the icon in This PC, there is no option to eject the drive.
There is a system tray option to "safely eject" it, but ...
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Is "compress OS Drive" worth it on SSD?
My SSD is running out of disk space, and I see that "Compress your OS drive" is suggested as a means to save some disk space.
My questions:
I'm not sure whether there are any performance penalty ...
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How to write a bootable ISO Windows installation disk to a disk partition (and not USB flash drive)?
I have already read How to write bootable iso to a partition? and How do I place a bootable ISO on a USB drive?, but here it's a bit different:
I'd like to put the Windows 10 (or 7) bootable ISO ...
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How to prevent a secondary HDD from spinning down?
First off I did try the power options setting and it's on 'Never' but that did nothing. The drive still spins down after 15-20 seconds of not being used. I need it to spin all the time because it's ...
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100% disk usage on windows 10
I've a windows 10 copy running in my core i5 second gen laptop. Now there is this issue where the hard disk usage goes to 100% and the system doesn't respond for a few seconds to even few minutes. I'...
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Windows 10 Eating up Disk Space
I recently upgraded to Windows 10. It's been a pretty rocky road thus far. My current issue is Windows 10 keeps using up my SSD's disk space until it has none left and then complains I have no space ...
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Low disk space after filling up C:\Windows\Temp with .evtx and .txt files
I've been using my new Windows 10 PC for about one week and have recently started getting this warning:
This does not appear every reboot. Checking C:\ properties, 212MB was reported free...and after ...
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