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.

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  1. Anonymous
    2017-06-06T16:24:43+00:00

    very very thank you it worked now I can play games without any lags

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-11-18T04:47:53+00:00

    I've had this problem too. Even when I'm not doing anything, my 7500 RPM disk runs at 90-100 percent most of the time.

    In my experience, OneDrive was mostly to blame. After disabling it and only running it when I needed it, things were better. However, it still happens to spike up too often for my pleasure, and I can't lock down on a source of the problem.

    Conclusion: I'm just going to bypass all of the disabling stuff, tweaks, downloads, etc. and just get an SSD.

    I guess it's a painful process for the consumer to be pushed to buy computers with SSD's that we didn't need before, but I think it will be worth it.

    Edit: I get up today, turn on my computer, and this happens:

    I was not doing anything at all. All of this disk usage was set under a couple of "system" processes. Seriously? Windows 7 didn't do this. I am still going to stick with 10 and get an SSD, but this is still ridiculous.

    A few minutes later, I found that Skype was evidently causing much of this, so I uninstalled it. Things went down for five seconds, then System and compressed memory ate up the new available disk usage. Again, this is ridiculous.

    Edit 2: Can't get anything done. I'm getting more and more ticked off at Microsoft by the second.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-11-10T02:21:12+00:00

    True. These solutions seemed to work fine; but only for a while.

    For me the disk usage stays 100 for about 5-10 mins, and it ocassionally goes up sometimes but doesn't hang. Mine is a 64bit machine

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-10-16T05:04:37+00:00

    I think that Microsoft has written Windows 10, especially 64 bit, so that it is focused on SSD.   My Windows 10 was upgraded by the Microsoft Store.  They kept it for 3 weeks thinking that it may mean my hard drive is failing.  The problem is that people with 5400 rpm hard drives may have them wearing out quicker due to the way they made this O/S. 

    Microsoft is like the bean counters were for the transmission problem in the Ford Taurus.

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  5. Anonymous
    2015-10-14T00:22:08+00:00

    Kind of wrong thread bro, but here:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NV45Mmn7TE

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