Fixing 100% disk usage in Windows 10 with Chrome and Skype running

Hello map77_1. Could you, please, be more specific regarding the instruction? I could not locate the "This worked for me", I mean specifically what worked for you (I could not backtrack your reply). It would be very helpful if you could include a link to those instructions, or provide the instructions, for changing 'Prefetcher'.

Hello there,  let me say this to start with;  I had tried multiple fixes, at different times, and among those fixes was one that reappeared on a lot of different websites that suggested using the registry editor to change the Dword value for Prefetcher from the default value of 3 to read the new value of '0';  (the link below will show you how to do this, but DON'T change it to '0'--doing that helped me a little bit, but not much;  however if you continue reading down the page in the link it eventually says that a person can also try changing the value to read '1' (instead of changing it to '0')--doing this is what finally fixed it for me.  Hope this helps you as much as it helped me!  Here is the link (read it entirely through):

 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/3083595/task-manager-might-show-100-disk-utilization-on-windows-10-devices-with-message-signaled-interrupt-msi-mode-enabled

Good luck! (you can copy and paste the link if it is not clickable)

Hello map77_1. Could you, please, be more specific regarding the instruction? I could not locate the "This worked for me", I mean specifically what worked for you (I could not backtrack your reply). It would be very helpful if you could include a link to those instructions, or provide the instructions, for changing 'Prefetcher'.

Hello there,  let me say this to start with;  I had tried multiple fixes, at different times, and among those fixes was one that reappeared on a lot of different websites that suggested using the registry editor to change the Dword value for Prefetcher from the default value of 3 to read the new value of '0';  (the link below will show you how to do this, but DON'T change it to '0'--doing that helped me a little bit, but not much;  however if you continue reading down the page in the link it eventually says that a person can also try changing the value to read '1' (instead of changing it to '0')--doing this is what finally fixed it for me.  Hope this helps you as much as it helped me!  Here is the link (read it entirely through):

 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/3083595/task-manager-might-show-100-disk-utilization-on-windows-10-devices-with-message-signaled-interrupt-msi-mode-enabled

Good luck! (you can copy and paste the link if it is not clickable)

STOP,  WRONG LINK ABOVE,  my apologies--that was not the right one--here is the CORRECT LINK  and NOTE that you have to scroll almost to the very end of the page of instructions to reach the part related to the PREFETCHER;  here is the link:  http://www.techbout.com/fix-100-disk-usage-error-windows-10-5549/

Has anyone tried replacing their SSD drive. I had a repair shop tell me that the only way to fix this problem is to replace the drive. Everything I have done has helped but it still occurs from time to time.

Getting you to spend $$ lol. Did your pc come with windows 10 or did you upgrade to it?

I am seeing this on about 90% of Windows 10 systems under our control. We manage about 600 systems of that half are windows 10. Different systems respond to different fixes. We have not found one fix that works on two different systems.

Like many of us I tried all of the suggestions.  Some seemed to work for a while.  The approach I suggest here has kept me happy for six months.  It's a little work.  But it is systematic.  There is a plan.  And, can you believe it?  It was developed and carefully hidden by Microsoft

    Download from MS the document “Tips to improve PC performance in Windows 10.”

  That document recommends SFC (System File Checker) which exists in the system somewhere.  It can be run in the “command mode” as an Administrator.  SFC attempts to find and replace corrupted files.  It gets replacements from a source in the system.  It takes a few minutes and if it says all’s well you are good to go.  Restart your machine.

  If SFC comes back saying it found bad files but can’t correct them, the Document says use DISM (Deployment Image Service and Management Tool).  I think “Deployment Image” is a code name for Update Files.

  Running DISM is just like running SFC but now you need to be “on line” and the software will use Microsoft as the source for replacement files.  If DISM says it can’t fix it then you need a Recovery Disk or Recovery Memory Stick.

  Basically it is saying there is SO much wrong, you can’t get there from here.

  But you have ALL this stuff on your computer:  programs , files including pictures and music, you don’t want to lose all of that.  So you want to get a recovery disk or stick that will just replace all of the system files, leaving all else as is.

  I downloaded an image of Windows 10 from MS and used RUFUS to make a Recovery Stick. RUFUS is a smart piece of freeware that uses an image of the windows system to make a recovery disk or stick.  First you download a system image.  You insert a writable disk or a memory stick, and you run RUFUS on your machine.  RUFUS uses the image as a supply for the files it needs to make a recovery source on your writeable disk or stick.  It even goes to MS and updates the files that came with your image.

 It worked flawlessly. It asks if you are happy with a “GOOD set of system files or if you would like to do a fresh install:  lose all of your old files and programs.  Say GOOD set and you are done.  In 20 minutes I had a happy box.