Fixing 100% disk usage in Windows 10 with Chrome and Skype running

I use Firefox and don't have Skype running.  I stopped Background Intelligent Transfer Service and Superfetch as suggested, so now my disk use is down from 100% to 85% as I write.

The hog when I start up is OneDrive (which has had numerous problems since I upgraded to Windows 10) then it's this retinue of "Service Host: Local System" with all sorts of services that I doubt I need on a laptop.

I've turned off everything extraneous, including the P2P updates, and still have the problem. My fan is constantly running, even when HDD use is finally down 5%. This issue is SO frustrating and has umpteen solutions on the internet (including here) that I'm getting ready to revert back to Windows 7. It's a workhorse that works.

Appreciate any workable solutions. Please fix this Microsoft!

Please do not quote the whole post, especially if you have nothing to add to it.

I add a  SOLUTION: NOT PERMANANT but can be kept on being done.

Type on search "view local services" select "Background Intelligent Transfer Service" stop it and go to properties and select disabled it will hold more a less a day it will take 2 or 3 minutes to stop disk at 100% usage.

Joni give us some solutions!

Good effort tracking this down, I'm glad it worked for you. Unfortunately it didn't work for me.

I had this problem and I traced it down using xperf to find the culprit. Still checking it out, but I'm a novice to XPerf. This motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-P61A-D3 Rev: 2. We've a whole bunch of them, they're not that old, maybe four years and were (and look like they still will be) running Windows 7 x64.

You see THIS is what I don't get Microsoft. Your releasing an operating system that doesn't work on computers which aren't that old. The Gigabyte GA-P61A-D3's run Windows 7 x64 very smoothly. But Windows 8 doesn't work on them (even though the drivers for 8 and 8.1 are there on Gigabytes website). I get this 30 second "glitch" on all the machines running Windows 8. Windows 8.1 and now Windows 10. From minute zero its there. Even before any drivers or software goes on. The install is disgustingly long. 45 minutes+ and then eventually you land at the desktop and find loads of Microsoft junkware/bloatware/spyware/malware. Then 5 minutes into the desktop, boom, have a 35 second glitch every 4 or 5 minutes. WINDOWS 10 - BEST WINDOWS EVER.

I've tried everything, even using the bog standard Windows AHCI drivers and setting the:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\PCI\VEN_1B4B&DEV_9172&SUBSYS_B0001458&REV_11\4&7e022be&0&00E2\Device Parameters\Interrupt Management\MessageSignaledInterruptProperties\MSISupported=0

as Microsoft suggest. No go. Same problem. But hang on a minute. Because this next one MAKE ME MAD AS HELL.

What there is NO EXCUSE FOR MICROSOFT, is why this problem is SO DAMN DIFFICULT TO TRACK DOWN... and for that reason alone I don't think this operating system is anything but a big stinking pile of dangerous malware/spyware junk.

NOT SHOWN ON TASK MANAGER - 100% DISK USAGE - ALL ASSIGNED TO THE MYSTERIOUS "SYSTEM" PROCESS.

NOT SHOWN IN PROCESS MONITOR OR PROCESS EXPLORER - I SHOULDN'T EVEN HAVE TO GO TO THESE, BUT MICROSOFT HAVE SO MANY BACKGROUND PROCESSES GOING ON THESE TOOLS ARE VIRTUALLY USELESS ANYWAY. TURNS OUT THEY ARE USELESS, BECAUSE I CANT TRACE IS THERE EITHER.

The fact that I have to delve DEEP into GOD DAMN DEVELOPER TOOLS to try and establish what the hell is happening on MY OWN COMPUTERS is ABSOLUTELY ABSURD - IT'S A COMPLETE JOKE. Even Intel and Gigabyte haven't bothered making drivers for it. Which kind of tells you everything you need to know.

I'm going to dedicate no more than a couple of hours of figuring this out. The PC's just needed a reload and it was "free" so I attempted the update on a few. I have a good idea that I'll be reformatting and sticking with Windows 7... and not just because of this 30 second glitch. I can see why this operating system as being "given away". It's the worst load of malware and spyware I think I've ever seen. I can't quite understand how the European data watchdog has let this thing be released. I bet the NSA's servers are very fat with everyone who's been silly enough to load this stuff.

I've been a windows user for 25+ years. This version has seriously made me look at linux as a full time OS.

Hi Lovish Garg,

I am happy that this helped you.

Helping others and then receiving comments like yours is really enabling me to continue to help others.

Kind regards

Disabling an integral system service is ill advised. You need to figure out the real cause of the high disk usage and then resolve that problem. I will recommend you use msconfig to run in safe boot mode with networking and also disable all non microsoft services in the services tab and then see if it resolves the issue, if it does then start enabling one service at a time to find out which causes the problem to appear again.

Hope this helps.