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

I agree with a previous poster.  There are two "100%" issues:

1. It's annoying - the hard drive is doing a lot after boot-up, for many reasons.  Maybe Microsoft can improve on this in the future, but it doesn't stop your PC working.  Lots of suggestions here may change this, but in the end it's not really a bug - just an annoying feature of many programs trying to do stuff (indexing / virus-checks / etc.).
2. It crashes / halts / stops your PC after a few minutes.  Drive usage remains at 100% even though Task Manager shows nothing is (able) to use it.  Your desktop becomes unresponsive and you have to restart your PC.

That 2nd problem was the one I had on a Dell PC I'd just updated to Windows 10 AND from a hard drive to a SSD (Solid-state drive).  The two combined caused problem 2 for me.

I solved this by changing a BIOS setting (turning off RAID - which I don't use) which caused a different hard drive 'driver' to be used.  Problem GONE (several weeks ago, and never returned).

Now it may well be that my process managed to reset something else and the driver was never the problem - but I'm pretty sure it was a driver bug that perhaps didn't respond well to a SSD being present.

My post detailing what I did is at the end of this thread:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows\_10-hardware/task-manager-shows-100-disk-utilization-on-windows/f664d045-5eb6-43b5-8853-e297b0e6b241

I did the Google Chrome suggestion and still at 100% and I do not even have Skype.  THis is the third forum have been in and the third set of different "causes" and 'fixes" for this problem and yet here I a still trying to resolve this issue.  Since this **** didn't happen in other versions of Windows, my question is WHAT IS MICROSOFT DOING TO FIX THE ISSUE?????? Why should we the consumer have to spend countless hours trying all of these possible fixes??  Why don't they just correct the background issues and send a free update to its users.  Its time to step up to the plate Microsoft and FIX the problem, clearly it stems from a programming issue on your side and I shouldn't have to keep playing Geek Squad trying to solve the mystery.  Over it!!!

Disabling an integral system service is ill advised. You need to figure out the real cause of the high disk usage and then resolve that problem. I will recommend you use msconfig to run in safe boot mode with networking and also disable all non microsoft services in the services tab and then see if it resolves the issue, if it does then start enabling one service at a time to find out which causes the problem to appear again.

Hope this helps.

This is an important idea if your system goes down to almost 0% after only 5 minutes.  There are programs like, "Antimalware Service Executable:"

"In the Task Manager (pictures below are from Windows 8.x but the process is identical in 7 and older), if you right click AntiMalware Service Executable, you can open the file location. The MsMpEng.exe is the file used by Windows Defender/Security Essentials to scan your PC files." 

That is the highest percentage showing in the Task Manager at my Start-up, and I have determined that it is something that I want to run at the start. 

It is wise to be careful.

Reversing your solution, for me on Windows 10, solved my laptop problem--I had been running BITS on 'manual', but when I changed the setting to 'automatic' it immediately dropped from 100% down to less than 10%. 

Please do not quote the whole post, especially if you have nothing to add to it.

I add a  SOLUTION: NOT PERMANANT but can be kept on being done.

Type on search "view local services" select "Background Intelligent Transfer Service" stop it and go to properties and select disabled it will hold more a less a day it will take 2 or 3 minutes to stop disk at 100% usage.

Joni give us some solutions!

I am saying there are two conditions that create the 100% disk use - the one is when the computer is really busy and the 100% condition allows each task to get a turn at the disk. This is normal and not the bug.

The incorrect 100% Disk appears and kills the normal operation when the Disk usage gets to zero. My fix is to run a program that never allows that condition to be reached.

I have a blog that explains this in detail Click here: wordpress article to read. There may be other ways for it to appear and may need a different work around. It would be useful to hear if your problem is different.