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Windows Abnormally High Disk Usage / 100% Disk Usage
I have been experiencing an abnormally high disk usage on Windows 8.1 for a couple of months now that has greatly hindered the speed of my laptop, particularly when a process is retrieving memory from ...
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Windows performs very low over 2 year timespan
My laptop is performing very low compared to when I just purchased it from the store. Normally when I try to clean it, the most common things are ad-/spamware and just a bunch of cluttered and ...
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Follow up, extreme sluggishness on machine doing IO
This is a follow up to a previous question.
After more investigation it appears that I have a slightly different problem, whenever I do any volume of disk based activity like copying files or backing ...
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Consistently high disk usage hinders performance
I have a Asus quad-core Laptop running windows8.1, and it has high disk usage, for the entire time it is running. Its not like its doing anything, (that I know about) Just 100% disk usage, all the ...
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Windows 8: 100% SSD Activity, 0 R/W Speed: System Hang Issue
Experienced a weird issue with my Windows 8 system where it hangs and it is very unresponsive at random intervals of time (in fact, the first clue that I had an issue was when boot to desktop time was ...
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Hard drive usage very high all the time
I have a problem with very high hard drive usage. Computer of my colleague (Sony VAIO) was working very slowly, it had Windows 10 Technical Preview, so I had to reinstall system. I installed Windows 8 ...
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How do I Defrag/Optimize a Windows 8.1 Volume which has no Drive Letter? Does it matter?
I have a Dell Inspiron Ultrabook running Windows 8.1 (64-bit). In File Explorer, I click on Drive C Properties -> Tools -> Optimize. There I see 4 drives listed as follows:
OS (C:) -- OK (0% ...
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Compare the performance and reliability of two hard disk drives
I currently have two basic hard disk drives from brands I don’t even recall. I just bought a new SSD to be the replacement of one of the two current ones.
The two hard disk drives I currently ...
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Why is computer slow in switching between opened applications?
I like to open a lot of Chrome tabs, but when I try to switch between open tabs, the tab tends to re-render. When I have some other applications open alongside with chrome, those applications also ...
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serious disk performance problems, please help,
I have a Dell inspiron 7720
processor intelr core tm i7 3630qm
8 gm ram
the problem is that me disk is always between 49% - 50%, then I noticed my disk had some "partitions" named as disk 0c: and ...
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How do I make HDParm or equivalent settings persist in Windows?
I have a laptop with a harddrive that spins down so aggressively (after ~10s of inactivity) that it causes performance problems in games and various other apps that have frequent but spread out drive ...
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Service Host: Local system (network restricted) is thrashing hard disk
I am having windows 8.1 with update 1 installed and all release updates of windows till the date i am posting this questions. System is laptop, Core i3 with 6 GB RAM and 500GB hard disk.
When ever i ...
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Windows 8.1 - HDD spinning at 100% even though no read/write
I have an HP Laptop (Core i5, 8GB RAM, 320GB HDD) running Windows 8.1 (x64), that recently got the Sality.AU Virus. The OS had only just been installed, and a friend downloaded the drivers and put ...
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Windows 8.1 100% disk usage
Sorry to make another one of these posts, but I've dug through at least a dozen other threads and no other solution has worked for me. My problem also seems to be slightly different.
As you can see, ...
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WD Black 2.5 sata drive slow on windows 8. Sector size is 4k. What gives? 40MBps write
WD Black 2.5 sata drive slow on windows 8. Sector size is 4k. What gives? 40MBps write.
This is a brand new WD black scorpion 500gb drive, on a brand new Zotac Zbox Nano CI320, quad core with 4gb of ...
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