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
    2017-05-26T19:16:35+00:00

    Did you upgrade to windows 10 from a previous version? If so, check your drive for "windows.old" and delete it! It is a image of the computer prior to the windows 10 install, just in case s#!t hits the fan. It is supposed to be trashed after all is said and done, but s#!t happens :)

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-05-26T18:52:33+00:00

    Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. I've spent weeks doing so many different things to my system. They would get the disk usage back down to where it was supposed to be but it was like putting a bandaid on the problem. It would only last for as long as I had my PC on. After reboot, it would go back to the way it was. Thank you. I hope that this solution will stick unlike the others.

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-05-25T23:55:56+00:00

    Hi I'm not going to read this whole thread. Here's my suggestion.

    Have you performed a hard drive test. I prefer seagate!

    Here's link! Let me know how things go!

    http://knowledge.seagate.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/202435en

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-05-25T22:32:41+00:00

    Hi there , I am sorry but I have to call you out ! I have an Acer Aspire 2009 and after reading your suggestion went on and set the paging fike size to ZERO . Then I restarted the Laptop well this is very frustrating because nothin is changed and the damned thing stays at 100% usage and my computer has gone super slow . So mate thanks but no thanks and no Kudos either.

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  5. Anonymous
    2017-05-24T19:00:01+00:00

    Thanks a lot bro anyways how come u found that its so hidden and no one have solved it before You are a genius :D

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