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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  2. Monkey57 3,535 Reputation points
    2017-06-17T15:45:20+00:00

    Please consider starting a new question, with the specifics of your device.... Please make sure you have a good Backup (FileHistory and/or OneDrive or something else).. Although you have identified an effect of the instability, fixing the cause of the instability may be elussive, a Win10 Reset or Win10 clean install may get you back to safe, secure, and stable quickest.

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-06-17T14:13:40+00:00

    So, its definitely Telemetry that is hogging the disk. This much i know for certain, now. But all the suggested methods (here and in other articles) do not disable it, for me.

    I cannot get into gpedit.msc so i changed the registry as suggested, i did have to add the "Allow Telemetry" DWORD. I have double, triple, and quadruple checked i did it correctly. I have

    Still nothing.

    At the moment i am stuck going into Task Manager every so often and killing the process.

    Odd thing is, i opted out of sending telemetry. And yet...

    At which point i am forced to agree with another article i read where someone commented that this is akin to some form of malware. Especially when you have already said "NO!" to sending such telemetry.

    Yeah, sorry about that rant. But i am so p***ed off with this issue now.

    If anyone has any ideas, please, please, please help me (Obi-Wan Kenobi)

    Dan

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-06-15T18:07:10+00:00

    Just to make it clear: 

    We are talking about a Disk staying at 100%.  When I restart new computers the Hard Drives are all staying at 100% for about 5 minutes.  My laptops at home with Windows 10 are doing the same thing, and after 5 minutes goes down to 0% to 10%.

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  5. Anonymous
    2017-06-13T04:26:07+00:00

    Method 1 and 2 are each others' alternatives. I only used method 1 on Win 10 and it worked for me.

    gpedit.msc works on Win 10. Do not forget to open cmd (command prompt) as administrator (right click on cmd and select run as administrator to do so). I still have no issues on %100 disk usage. Basically the problem is Microsoft Compatibility Telemetry and this method(s) seems to be the best and permanent solution (I tried others as well).  

    Here is another method (just try the option 1): https://ugetfix.com/ask/how-to-disable-microsoft-compatibility-telemetry-compattelrunner-exe/

    But only previous method (the first one I suggested) worked for me. Please do not forget the run cmd as administrator in both cases.

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