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Title: Disk at 100% on Windows 10
Post by: bellow on December 12, 2016, 08:37:49 AM

This is a copy of an issue I have/had but I would still like hep with it I am on windows 10 and my computer is acting like it has a virus but all scans ahave been clean (so about the typing wrong another issue is I cannot see when it does this ao I am typing and hoping it looks ok) I went to my task manager and the disk was at 100% and when I click it to bring up the highest user it said something about telemerty. And it goes away then comes back and this freezing is getting old real fast. Is there anything I can do that may help slow it down or even stop it?
Title: Re: Disk at 100% on Windows 10
Post by: soybean on December 12, 2016, 09:28:02 AM
This article might be helpful: http://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-10-telemetry-secrets/  It indicates that change of a setting in Windows might improve the situation. 
Title: Re: Disk at 100% on Windows 10
Post by: patio on December 12, 2016, 10:45:20 AM
How much free and used space is on this HDD ? ?
Title: Re: Disk at 100% on Windows 10
Post by: bellow on December 12, 2016, 11:40:16 AM
I am not sure I cannot find the info right at the min
Title: Re: Disk at 100% on Windows 10
Post by: patio on December 12, 2016, 01:50:40 PM
We'll be here...
Title: Re: Disk at 100% on Windows 10
Post by: bellow on December 12, 2016, 11:53:05 PM
121 GB used out of 465 GB
Title: Re: Disk at 100% on Windows 10
Post by: soybean on December 13, 2016, 10:10:53 AM
121 GB used out of 465 GB
Exactly where did you get that?  I think you're talking about two different concepts, one being the % disk usage shown in Task Manager, and one being the space consumed on your hard drive with regular files as shown in File Explorer.
Title: Re: Disk at 100% on Windows 10
Post by: BC_Programmer on December 13, 2016, 11:00:27 AM
patio asked for the free and used space on the HDD.
Title: Re: Disk at 100% on Windows 10
Post by: soybean on December 13, 2016, 12:16:20 PM
Oops, I should have re-read the posts.
Title: Re: Disk at 100% on Windows 10
Post by: bellow on December 13, 2016, 02:45:58 PM
I do not know what is asked I am computer stupid.
Title: Re: Disk at 100% on Windows 10
Post by: patio on December 13, 2016, 03:55:40 PM
Is the issue still there ? ? It may have been running updates/scans in the background...
Title: Re: Disk at 100% on Windows 10
Post by: bellow on December 13, 2016, 04:29:29 PM
The issue is still there buut I am too stupid to know what is begin asked so I will just forget about it and deal with it
Title: Re: Disk at 100% on Windows 10
Post by: patio on December 13, 2016, 04:41:35 PM
Why not post a screenshot of what you are seeing ? ?
Title: Re: Disk at 100% on Windows 10
Post by: patio on December 13, 2016, 04:43:30 PM
I know people who have showed up here with questions on Task Manager that were never seen again...

Most times they forgot to start usin the PC...and instead fell down the rabbit hole it can be...
Title: Re: Disk at 100% on Windows 10
Post by: bellow on December 14, 2016, 11:48:40 AM
here is a screen shot yes I know the cpu usage is high. That is normal when I am playing a game which at the time of the screenshot I was

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Title: Re: Disk at 100% on Windows 10
Post by: soybean on December 15, 2016, 07:33:10 AM
We can only see the top 4 items of your Task Manager panel.  And, it shows significant CPU usage in those 4 items, none of which are a game.  Do you know how much of CPU resource the game actually uses? 
Title: Re: Disk at 100% on Windows 10
Post by: bellow on December 15, 2016, 08:36:40 AM
I am showing the Disk Usage Not the CPU I was just saying that yes the cpu usage is high but thaat there was a reason for that and has nothing to do with the disk issue
Title: Re: Disk at 100% on Windows 10
Post by: Computer_Commando on December 15, 2016, 11:55:26 AM
It's probably trying to do a Win10 update.  There was a big one on Tuesday.
Go to Settings---Update & security---Update status
Title: Re: Disk at 100% on Windows 10
Post by: patio on December 15, 2016, 01:13:53 PM
According to the screencap it's also running an A/V scan...but as pointed out...we can only see 4 items...it could be a number of things.
Title: Re: Disk at 100% on Windows 10
Post by: bellow on December 15, 2016, 03:54:14 PM
This started about three weeks ago not just Tuesday
It's probably trying to do a Win10 update.  There was a big one on Tuesday.
Go to Settings---Update & security---Update status
Title: Re: Disk at 100% on Windows 10
Post by: bellow on December 15, 2016, 03:57:43 PM
Nevermind I was talk asbout the top item as that was the same item that was messing up. But forget it
Title: Re: Disk at 100% on Windows 10
Post by: Geek-9pm on December 15, 2016, 05:02:14 PM
That image is not about he space used on the disk drive.
It is a report about what the disk drive hardware does.
The 97 % means the report is a near complete report. It has nothing to do with smooth  performance of the system.

Like if somebody says your car looks very clean. That does not mean the car is good. It only means  a worker made an effort to clean the car.  In fact, a car with a bad motor  can be very clean.

So the title of this  post is misleading.
Disk at 100% on Windows 10
...really means:
Windows 10 is  intently watching your disk drive.

Which coup imply that more work could be done if Windows stop looking at the drive interface activity and go do something more productive.  ::)
Title: Re: Disk at 100% on Windows 10
Post by: BC_Programmer on December 15, 2016, 07:18:57 PM
There is nothing wrong with the topic title. The problem is quite fully explained even in their initial post.

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The 97 % means the report is a near complete report. It has nothing to do with smooth  performance of the system.

97% means that the Disk is pretty furiously writing or reading data to or from the disk (likely the former), and using up approximately that amount of the disks total reported performance capability. This usually does affect the smooth performance of the system because it results in all other I/O requests having excessive wait times. It's exacerbated somewhat because the Telemetry Runner Process has high I/O priority, for whatever reason. I've never seen 100% disk usage on any system not correlate with decreased performance, myself.

Reducing the Amount of Telemetry information that is tracked could help alleviate the problem:


Settings->Privacy and Security, on the left, click "Feedback and Diagnostics".

On the right under "Diagnostics and usage data" you can change the setting to "Basic". This should help reduce the amount of information That Windows will track and report to Microsoft, and thus what it will need to save to disk while it prepares it's report to the mothership about how you use your computer.

Alternatively, The Telemetry capabilities can be shut off entirely, this can be done by disabling the "Diagnostics Tracking Service" Service.