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

Anonymous
2015-08-16T12:25:27+00:00

How to fix 100% disk usage in Windows 10

This is caused by a common combination of Skype as well Google Chrome. Similar issue with other programs could also cause 100% disk usage. To fix this do the following:

Google Chrome:

In Google Chrome, go to Settings > Show Advanced Settings ... > Privacy > Prefetch resources to load pages more quickly

and untick it. See Figure-1 below:

Figure-1

Skype:

Make sure you have exited Skype and it is not running in the taskbar (if it is running in the taskbar then quit it).

Open Windows Explorer and open the following folder:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Skype\Phone"

Now right click "Skype.exe" file and then click "Properties" and open the "Security" tab.

Click the "Edit" button and then highlight "ALL APPLICATION PACKAGES" and place a tick in the "Write" box.

Click "Apply" and then "OK" and then "OK" again. See Figures-2 to Figure-6 below:

This is it, now run Skype and check the Disk Usage in Task Manager and it will no longer show you 100% disk usage anymore:-

I hope this helps people. I spent a long time in finding a solution to this problem.

Windows for home | Windows 10 | Devices and drivers

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  1. Anonymous
    2016-10-04T02:47:26+00:00

    Hi, 

    1.  Newer Laptops w/ Windows 10 is not having this problem. 
    2.  My laptop is 2 1/2 years old, my daughter's laptop is 4 1/2 years old, both HP's, both AMD chips, it starts at 100% disk usage, however, in 5-10 minutes goes down between 3% to 6%.  So, some older laptops work and some do not. 

    What you have said makes sense.  The best solution if your laptop is having the problem is to go back to Windows 7, 8, 8.1, or try Ubuntu/Lubuntu.  It is very easy to put the newer versions, 15 or 16 of Ubuntu on a computer.  If you want to it is easy to install a Windows O/S in the VirtualBox, (Windows 2000-Windows 8.1), and use all your Windows program within the LinuxBox...or use the Boot Loader that comes with Linux to choose either Linux or Windows.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-10-03T13:08:17+00:00

    "Changing to an ssd does not solve the problem it just make it hard to see."

    It has nothing to do with SSD's because I have an SSD that worked fine B4 I installed the 'Anniversary Update'.

    After installing the Anniversary Update I started experiencing this Disk Usage BS...

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-10-01T08:23:33+00:00

    Thank you so much!

    I'm still at high disk usage but nowhere near 100% like before!

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-09-30T21:55:29+00:00

    This really helped.  Took my disk usage from 100% to 10%.  Thanks for the tip.

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  5. Anonymous
    2016-09-28T13:16:32+00:00

    I could not find all application packages... Please help

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