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
    2016-03-13T12:26:52+00:00

    I uninstalled both and skype. But the disk usage is still 100%

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-03-14T09:39:47+00:00

    this is to do with pagefile , 

    http://ccm.net/faq/43000-windows-10-virtual-memory

    A good read and i disabled pagefile and it works a treat.

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-03-15T10:16:29+00:00

    Skype worked for me. Would be grateful if you could help me out with Firefox as I don't have chrome and was not able to find the setting equivalent in Firefox

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  5. Anonymous
    2016-03-15T11:59:10+00:00

    In my case I am getting 52% Ram usage on boot-up (6 Gigs) and it slowly over 2-3 hours climbs to 100%, causing lock-up. I suspect that the ram is not dumping, and is continuing to add stored pages to the cache, in an active state, I have to cut power to reboot, and its back to 53% and cycles the same.

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