Windows 10 100 Percent Disk Usage Problem

Glad to see I have thousands of users having the same issue.  I exercised all the suggested solutions with no fix.  PC is useless about 50% of the time.  EXTREMELY FRUSTRATING!! Microsoft better figure this out and fast!  I'm done with them and their OS.  Like many others who were happy with the stability of Windows 7, I can't figure out why MS would update to a new OS that is horrible.  Makes no sense.

Hello Apple!  Goodbye MS!!

I was able to get this under control (at least to be able to actually use my PC) by disabling the following in services (in actual services, not via command line):

superfetch

windowsupdate

windowssearch

Microsoftoffice click to run service

Not sure if there are more, or even if these are correct, but the moment I did this my disk usage went down to 30-50%...not the best but better than the 100% I have had for weeks.

100% Disk Usage - 2nd time in one year on new computer with Windows 10, 1Tb hard drive, 258GB used, 16mb RAM, Dell Inspiron, 7th Gen Intel Core i7. 

I had this problem again this week after the latest Windows update. I tried all the solutions...again...Shut down search, Superfetch, Virtual memory trick, etc. All to no avail. 

Update was on 03-12-2019, problem of 100% Disk activity with it pegged at 100% since, not dropping even a percent. I tried the above solutions then I tried the more drastic solutions below. 

I tried to go back to a Restore Point...did not work. Reset PC would not work and advanced start up would not work. I had to re-install Windows...again...with a clean re-install. I did this by going through Settings -> Windows Update -> Recovery -> More Recovery Options -> Fresh Start -> Get Started. This took most of the day on 03-15-2019. 

Very Frustrating that Microsoft can't get a handle on this problem. 

Now, the Disk is running normal, fluctuating with consistent demands placed upon it. Machine is fast and responsive after re-installing all my programs...again.

Well, this is partly to be expected after an update, especially if is a big one (not sure that's the case here,) which is basically a full reinstall of the whole Windows system. If it lasts for more than a few hours after the update though, something is wrong with Windows or Microsoft.

But it's still not acceptable to me: All these maintenance tasks related to the update should perform in the background with a low priority. Standard usage of the computer should never be effected in this disastrous way. Even the most basic operations such as copying a file seem to freeze the computer more than they should, like the computer tries to reach the maximum throughput regardless if there is a human who would also like to do some work on their computer instead of waiting until the computer has completed its "more important" work.

Also not acceptable is the total lack of effective diagnosis tools for these common conditions, including 100% CPU or memory, slow network bandwidth, and even more importantly, a lack of adequate self repair tools. Instead, the user is forced to scour the Internet for solutions, try disabling a bunch of services, edit the Registry, basically wreck their own computer system doing stuff that should never be done because they are not the root cause of the problem. Every month I waste several hours of my life in total waiting for Windows, experimenting or fixing Windows bugs, reading or writing these bug forums, etc.

The system should be set for automatically never ever reaching over, say 60-80% of the disk throughput  threshold, assigning lower priorities not just for CPU usage, but also for disk usage. If the user wants to increase this threshold or assign higher priorities to specific processes, provide a simple user interface to let them do so, but the factory settings should put the focus on the human user, not on low priority system processes. If an app uses too many resources, I also want the system to automatically lower this app's disk usage and notify me about it the first time, so I have a chance to choose to either let Windows do its stuff, or intervene manually to keep the app's disk usage priority to its high level because I, not Windows, say it's an important app. Or Microsoft could pull together users feedback to propose a specific priority for these known apps. I don't know, there's probably a thousand ways for Windows to do things right, so why choose these few ways to do them wrong?

I had the same update around the same time with the same result. I would not EXPECT this after an update! Few hours???? That is insane! They should not need to take control of your computer and interrupt customer processing like that. It is inexcusable and just not good business.... just like allowing this to go on without addressing it is!