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
    2016-01-28T10:55:23+00:00

    Brilkiant mate, thank you

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-01-27T13:40:11+00:00

    Thanks for the article. Microsoft Edge was my culprit.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-01-24T23:02:41+00:00

    Hi, 

    It seemed to have worked initially, but again the disk activity is 100%. 

    The start up time also is way slow. Win 8.1 was very fast. 

    Is there any other way?

    I am using a Dell i7347-10051sLV laptop with 8GB RAM. 

    Thanks in advance!

    Try a system defrag i installed w10 clean and had only installed office 365, disk usage was 90 percent of the time running at 99% looked at defrag and only 6% could be defraged but thought would give it a go since doing the defrag my system flutters between 3% and 12% disk usage and does not freeze before, doing this my p.c was unusable at times.

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-01-22T19:09:11+00:00

    Worked for me

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  5. Anonymous
    2016-01-21T03:59:07+00:00

    If the solutions above did not fix the issues make sure that you do not have two anti viruses on your computer. This is also known to cause this issue. Also McAfee will cause the 100% disk issue as well.

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