100% Disk Usage at Idle?

[Terra Firma]

My Windows has been acting a little strange since i bought this computer, prebuilt gaming rig from Ironside Computers. On 8.1 some of the Windows Apps didnt want to launch and i think the tile view thing didnt work either. Now on 10, everything functions as it should except the Windows UI (such as the start menu, and menus that pop out when you click on sound options, network icon, the clock, etc) will sometimes lag like hell when opening, taking maybe 5 seconds to open and lagging for a bit longer until they finally start working smoothly. My computer runs on an AMD FX 6300 and 8GB of DDR3 RAM, all installed on a 7200RPM HDD. I understand this hardware isnt the latest or the best but i thought it should be able to at least run Windows smoothly?
The most prominent issue ive been having problems with is task manager and my hardware monitor registering 100% disk usage, and its usually between the "System" process, or the "Microsoft Compatibility Telemetry" service in the task manager.

I'm at a bit of a loss, the only background services i believe i have running are my antivirus, gDrive, Iobit Systemcare, Steam and Origin, and MSI afterburner.

Any ideas? I've recently run sfc /scannow and DISM and neither have come up with anything. Willing to supply more info as needed.

[Billy_Mays]

It's all of the bloat ware that's installed 

[Terra Firma]

Just now, Billy_Mays said:

It's all of the bloat ware that's installed 

there is no bloat installed. there wasnt any from Ironside, and this 100% usage isnt constant. it happens at system start and after exiting some larger games, and after a while it returns to 0%.

[LHJKO]

11 minutes ago, Terra Firma said:

there is no bloat installed. there wasnt any from Ironside, and this 100% usage isnt constant. it happens at system start and after exiting some larger games, and after a while it returns to 0%.

stop super fetch windows search and Background Intelligent Transfer in the services 

[Terra Firma]

1 minute ago, Vernw3 said:

stop super fetch windows search and back ground in the services 

where would i go to do that? task manager > services has a service called sysmain described as superfetch but it isnt running

[LHJKO]

Just now, Terra Firma said:

where would i go to do that? task manager > services has a service called sysmain described as superfetch but it isnt running

type services in the windows search  bar 

[weed]

7 minutes ago, Terra Firma said:

My Windows has been acting a little strange since i bought this computer, prebuilt gaming rig from Ironside Computers. On 8.1 some of the Windows Apps didnt want to launch and i think the tile view thing didnt work either. Now on 10, everything functions as it should except the Windows UI (such as the start menu, and menus that pop out when you click on sound options, network icon, the clock, etc) will sometimes lag like hell when opening, taking maybe 5 seconds to open and lagging for a bit longer until they finally start working smoothly. My computer runs on an AMD FX 6300 and 8GB of DDR3 RAM, all installed on a 7200RPM HDD. I understand this hardware isnt the latest or the best but i thought it should be able to at least run Windows smoothly?
The most prominent issue ive been having problems with is task manager and my hardware monitor registering 100% disk usage, and its usually between the "System" process, or the "Microsoft Compatibility Telemetry" service in the task manager.

I'm at a bit of a loss, the only background services i believe i have running are my antivirus, gDrive, Iobit Systemcare, Steam and Origin, and MSI afterburner.

Any ideas? I've recently run sfc /scannow and DISM and neither have come up with anything. Willing to supply more info as needed.

If it isn't bloatware then it probably a dying HDD

[Terra Firma]

Just now, weed said:

If it isn't bloatware then it probably a dying HDD

thats something ive feared but i thought hard drives were meant to last a while, is there any way i could confirm this?

[weed]

Just now, Terra Firma said:

thats something ive feared but i thought hard drives were meant to last a while, is there any way i could confirm this?

You'll start noticing really really low speeds in opening games and booting up then after like 1 hour uses either the system will freeze or your gonna get a BSOD, another way to check (which i dont recommend) is you opening the HDD by yourself

[Terra Firma]

1 minute ago, weed said:

You'll start noticing really really low speeds in opening games and booting up then after like 1 hour uses either the system will freeze or your gonna get a BSOD, another way to check (which i dont recommend) is you opening the HDD by yourself

well booting up for certain has always been a little slow, but to my perception games have been loading how they always do. would there happen to be any software that can check?

[LHJKO]

Just now, Terra Firma said:

well booting up for certain has always been a little slow, but to my perception games have been loading how they always do. would there happen to be any software that can check?

did you try and disable those thing alot of people have the same problem as you including me and stop  those three things fixed it 

[weed]

Just now, Terra Firma said:

well booting up for certain has always been a little slow, but to my perception games have been loading how they always do. would there happen to be any software that can check?

Sadly there is no software, which i have found out the hard way, basically my laptop got thrown around during luggage handling  during air travel and started experiencing the symptoms i told you BSOD, slow booting up, slow game load, crashing often until one time it didnt even want to start opened up the hard drive found it completely destroyed from the inside 

[Terra Firma]

Just now, Vernw3 said:

did you try and disable those thing alot of people have the same problem as you including me and stop  those three things fixed it 

i found and stopped intelligence transfer and search, superfetch wasnt running. ill see if it makes a difference, out of curiosity tho wont i need the windows search service? what differences will i notice without it running?

[Terra Firma]

Just now, weed said:

Sadly there is no software, which i have found out the hard way, basically my laptop got thrown around during luggage handling  during air travel and started experiencing the symptoms i told you BSOD, slow booting up, slow game load, crashing often until one time it didnt even want to start opened up the hard drive found it completely destroyed from the inside 

well i have moved my desktop back and forth between houses more than a few times but i dont believe its ever been really roughly treated

[LHJKO]

Just now, Terra Firma said:

i found and stopped intelligence transfer and search, superfetch wasnt running. ill see if it makes a difference, out of curiosity tho wont i need the windows search service? what differences will i notice without it running?

no idk what it does but i dont notice anything different i cant still use windows search bar fine 

[weed]

Just now, Terra Firma said:

well i have moved my desktop back and forth between houses more than a few times but i dont believe its ever been really roughly treated

Well the thing i suggest is you back up all of your data so you dont lose it all like i did

[Terra Firma]

Just now, weed said:

Well the thing i suggest is you back up all of your data so you dont lose it all like i did

thats always a smart thing to do, but i dont have money for either a replacement HDD or a backup drive right now which is why im anxious about it all

[weed]

Just now, Terra Firma said:

thats always a smart thing to do, but i dont have money for either a replacement HDD or a backup drive right now which is why im anxious about it all

Find a cheap working external HDD and put it all in there, or you could put all of your data on a cloud, which i something i do very often to my rig, or move all of your data to a laptop which you have lying around

[KenjiUmino]

34 minutes ago, Terra Firma said:

there is no bloat installed.

yup ... i have seen this happen on a fresh and clean install of windows 10 ... no other stuff installed but disk usage is always 99-100% no matter what and how much time the system had to "get things sorted out" ... it's always some windows service or something

 

i have not found a final answer to this problem. just saying you are not the only one.

[Terra Firma]

Just now, KenjiUmino said:

yup ... i have seen this happen on a fresh and clean install of windows 10 ... no other stuff installed but disk usage is always 99-100% no matter what and how much time the system had to "get things sorted out" ... it's always some windows service or something

 

i have not found a final answer to this problem. just saying you are not the only one.

id really much rather it be a rouge service over a dying HDD thats for certain lol. 

[KenjiUmino]

6 minutes ago, Terra Firma said:

id really much rather it be a rouge service over a dying HDD thats for certain lol. 

if crystaldiskinfo  does not detect anything your drive should be fine.

[Terra Firma]

1 minute ago, KenjiUmino said:

if crystaldiskinfo  does not detect anything your drive should be fine.