Windows update causing 100% disk utlisation

[moderategamer]

So my Laptop updated by itself while I was at work and now my disk utilisation is sitting at 100% anyone else had this problem? seems every update I get causes a new problem. This isn't the first time this has happened either happened a couple of updates back and then suddenly fixed itself.

[moderategamer]

This is so suspicious the disk utilisation goes to 0 after I turn the wifi off. It periodically bumps up to 2 then back down to 0 again as if it's checking for a network then finding one isn't present. Microsoft are definitely dumping all the contents of my hard drive

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

13 minutes ago, moderategamer said:

So my Laptop updated by itself while I was at work and now my disk utilisation is sitting at 100% anyone else had this problem? seems every update I get causes a new problem. This isn't the first time this has happened either happened a couple of updates back and then suddenly fixed itself.

It's pretty normal for Windows update to do that. You'll really feel the effects when you're running off a hard drive. It's one of the reasons why I got fed up and switched to SSDs. 

[moderategamer]

2 minutes ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

It's pretty normal for Windows update to do that. You'll really feel the effects when you're running off a hard drive. 

I guess somehow I just don't trust Microsoft any more I think they have become sick with power. They just don't seem to give a crap about the user anymore as they know their the only real option for most of us sorry apple I can't help but be suspicious of them especially with all that's going on in this modern society, Privacies dead and no one seems to care

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

9 minutes ago, moderategamer said:

I guess somehow I just don't trust Microsoft any more I think they have become sick with power. They just don't seem to give a crap about the user anymore as they know their the only real option for most of us sorry apple I can't help but be suspicious of them especially with all that's going on in this modern society, Privacies dead and no one seems to care

Yea you're in this awkward situation where Linux just isn't suited to be a daily machine for the average joe, Microsoft has it's image problems, and Apple is just too expensive for shoddy build quality and buggy software. 

 

Whichever route you take, you're going to be heavily screwed one way or another.

[moderategamer]

4 minutes ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

Yea you're in this awkward situation where Linux just isn't suited to be a daily machine for the average joe, Microsoft has it's image problems, and Apple is just too expensive for shoddy build quality and buggy software. 

 

Whichever route you take, you're going to be heavily screwed one way or another.

Exactly apple is too expensive and I've used Linux before and there are so many loop holes you have to jump through to do the simplest of things.

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

Just now, moderategamer said:

Exactly apple is too expensive and I've used Linux before and there are so many loop holes you have to jump through to do the simplest of things.

I couldn't even get Mint installed. Well it eventually did, but it took 10 minutes to boot from the same drive Windows 7 was happily chugging along. But yea, the latest iterations of Mac OS have just been littered with bugs. My friend woke up his 2015 MacBook Pro once, opened System Preferences only for it to release "oh shit, you haven't unlocked the device yet" *shows lock screen*. 

[Nostalgia_Realm]

46 minutes ago, moderategamer said:

So my Laptop updated by itself while I was at work and now my disk utilisation is sitting at 100% anyone else had this problem? seems every update I get causes a new problem. This isn't the first time this has happened either happened a couple of updates back and then suddenly fixed itself.

Check what process is using the disk in task manager, it's probably a legit Windows process finishing the update.

Several thing I encountered before when someone had 100% disk usage:

It might be CompatTelRunner.exe scanning for program compatibility issues. Or it might be a Chrome update that's running compat check on all exe-files for some reason, (still not sure why Chrome does that but it's a legit process).  If it's all under the "system" process then it's just part of the update process and all you can do is wait.

[moderategamer]

3 minutes ago, MSWindowsinside said:

Check what process is using the disk in task manager, it's probably a legit Windows process finishing the update.

Several thing I encountered before when someone had 100% disk usage:

It might be CompatTelRunner.exe scanning for program compatibility issues. Or it might be a Chrome update that's running compat check on all exe-files for some reason, (still not sure why Chrome does that but it's a legit process).  If it's all under the "system" process then it's just part of the update process and all you can do is wait.

Can't remember the names of the processes but they were all legit I searched them and it has finally went back to 0% I don't use chrome I'm just using edge because I like the clean look it has I know it has a bad rep but it's actually a fairly good browser.

[Nostalgia_Realm]

11 minutes ago, moderategamer said:

-snip-

Good, sounds like it was just finalizing the update in the background. And I don't use Chrome either, but I've seen it do weird things like what I mentioned on other people's PCs in the background.