HIGH disk usage Windows 8 Pro

Anonymous
2013-01-23T14:51:58+00:00

It's been about 4 days since I've had this issue. My computer was running really slow, so I checked the Task Manager and saw that a "System" process was running under the name "ntoskrnl.exe". I thought it was a virus or a rootkit. I ran Windows Defender and nothing was detected. I just did a clean install of my operating system last night, and I'm checking my processes and the same issue is persisting.

I have an HP Pavilion m7 1015-dx.

If the problem is persisting like I think it is, can this be a hardware issue?

Windows for home | Previous Windows versions | Performance and system failures

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-06-04T21:04:47+00:00

    Same Problem at my side.

    Hope Microsoft solves this issue soon

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-05-20T21:30:48+00:00

    ... LOL , and it goes on an'o oon . See below :))))))) good point, anyway !!

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-05-13T13:27:27+00:00

    Thanks,

    I killed the outlook then disk usage go normally.

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-01-19T21:21:48+00:00

    Changing the Minimum and Maximum power settings in Advanced Power settings worked for me as well.  Thanks. Funkmaster!

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  5. Anonymous
    2014-09-24T20:28:53+00:00

    I had the same problem, so I went to the file it was in, went to the top, and highlighted barely a quarter of all the files and stuff in there, before pressing delete and now my laptop is running fine. I suggest that, and thanks for posting this, I didn't realize system was the problem! :D

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