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

Hello everyone.

I have good news for the SO many people struggling to fix the 100% hdd usage.

You see i've been a victim of that issue myself.

For the last two days i tried every so called solution that i read on the web. Even crazy stuff. Nothing worked. Nothing at all (especially the silly suggestions like the chrome and skype ones, i don't even have chrome installed).

I was so frustrated i was seriously considering buying a new pc!  yes that frustrated.

As a last resort i opened a chat with Microsoft support.

I had little hope the support person would suggest anything effective but to my surprise it worked immediately (yeah, i know, if you are here, you've read that promise before, but THIS IS THE REAL DEAL!).

Enough talking. Here's what you should do:

open msconfig (simply type msconfig in the search field)

and go to the Boot tab.

There click the Advanced button.

You will see a checkbox with the text "number of processors". Check the box and make it 1.

To the right of that there is another checkbox that says maximum memory. Check that box too and set a value equal to the size of your RAM.   For example my laptop has 4GB RAM so i set it to 4096.

Click ok, apply,ok, and it will restart.

The 100% problem will not bother you anymore!  :)

You can send me a "thank you Greek guy"  :)

Kisses from Greece,

Anastasios

UPDATE:  Although the method solves the 100% hdd usage issue, changing the number of processors to 1 will impact performance. I've now unchecked the number of processors checkbox and only used the maximum memory one.

This totally worked for me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D\_XTinqqULg

Before disk usage always ended up 100%, froze the computer, very frustrating.  Problem solved.

Bill, 

Some of the posts are from people like me who have the problem for 5 minutes and then goes to normal.  Some have posted several times.  There are currently 270 million users of Windows 10, and there are ONLY 206 comments. 

Most here have taken off programs as the remedy.  My point is that this is probably not even the fault of the Operating System itself considering how few posts there are.  Skype, Chrome, all the programs people say to take off I still have. There are so few posts that is could be BIOS, specific Hard Drive Manufacturers software, etc., and not even the O/S.

What an indictment that there are 205 (now 206) comments. An amazing product if it takes this amount of time to NOT resolve the issue.

I had this problem again just a couple of days ago.  It's now the third or forth time that this has happened.

I again ran msconfig and unchecked all of the non Microsoft services that I could find under the services tab.  It's running well again, so I've given permission for a few of those services to start up again.

However, I've now done one additional thing.  I've uninstalled Java because when I had the slow down, task manager was showing that Java Web Site Launcher was running many, many times.  And that list was getting longer.  A reboot didn't solve that problem.  Had to reboot into safe mode in order to run msconfig.

Now I'm waiting to see if I miss anything by not having Java installed.