disk activity

Introduction Hello Windows enthusiasts! It's time to dive deep into another juicy update from Microsoft. If you're the sort who geeks out over performance metrics and system diagnostics, then the recent addition to Windows 11's Task Manager is going to be right up your alley. Let's unpack the...

I had my old C: HHD drive replaced by an SSD, and moved to D: A new copy of Windows 10 was installed by the computer shop. Although I never used my D: drive since then, Windows 10 reads it upon waking from sleep for a few minutes - even when the drive was disabled and the drive letter removed as...

A few days ago, my computer started to freeze during regular use. The screen, mouse, and keyboard freeze, and the red led (in my case) that blinks rapidly when there is disk activity stays lit continuously. The only way to stop this behavior is to shut down the computer by using the power...

Okay, for some reason, Task Manager is telling me I have 100% disk activity, and its going on all day long. This suddenly showed up a couple days ago and I have no idea why. I have not changed anything significant, like installing or updating any programs. Tonight I did do an optional...

When I call in Win7 the Ressource Monitor then a lot of values are fluctuating. The mount of bytes written to disk from process AAA for example is even sometimes automatically decreasing! So I guess there ist a time interval for the values and the values are automatically reset by windows...

Okay, I am having an issue that has been plaguing me for years, and that I have been having since I was back on Windows 7, and which didn't go away when I moved to windows 10, which I did ages ago. I turn my machine on, and certain foreground tasks tend to be a little sluggish, and I look over...

Apparently, a windows.old folder was created last night at around 11pm (I had no idea). I noticed I have increased HDD activity, and I was wondering why's that. Then windows said my boot disk space is running low, so I went to 'My Computer' and noticed a large chunk of my second HDD space is...

Hello all, I apologise for the length of this first post but I want to give as much information as I can. Whilst I would never call myself a nerd I have what I would assess as maybe being an enthusiastic amateur knowledge and experience with computers. This afternoon I wanted to move my...

After an hour or so of normal, or even no use, windows 8.1 becomes unresponsive. I can move the mouse around, but when I click on something, it hangs and the a few minutes later frees up, the freezes again. When I boot into safe mode I don't have the problem. I have done multiple scans with...

Hello. I have a big problem and I would like very much if you can, to have patience to read the entire post. I'd like to give me the solution of this problem only if you are really sure and you had such problems. PC configuration: OS: Windows 8.1 x64 CPU: Intel Pentium Dual-Core E5200@2.5...

Hi, I've been having nightmare with PC boot times ( up to 1 hour long) and extremely limited usage after boot, due to 100% disk activity. I have tried everything possible with windows itself, so today tried to test HDD with HDDtune Pro. Question, #1 - Are these low read speeds? #2 - If so...

Hello, from time to time my PC 'acts up' in the way that suddenly and without obvious provocation there is violent, and I use the word 'violent' judiciously, activity on the c:/ drive such that the LED is lit continuously (it doesn't blink rapidly but is lit as if powered by a 5 volt battery -...

Just got a new Acer aspire laptop for christmas. Everything works fine except that every time I turn it on or wake it up, there's about a 10 minute period of non-stop disk activity that causes every other application to come to a grinding hault. I downloaded process monitor and checked it out...

Hi I've been trying all day to post on the Windows 8 forum. I can log in to the forum OK, but when I try and post I get the you have to activate message. When I tell it to send my an Activation Message I don't receive one. I've tried a number of times and waited but no message. My log in and...

Hi All, I've catagorized this issue in "Video" because that is where it becomes most apparent, however it shows up intermitently throughout the day ... mostly when I am doing anything graphic intensive. My System: PC - Shuttle SX48P2 Deluxe OS - Windows 7 Ultimate RAM - 8 GB DDR3 VIDEO -...

I'm using EFS to encrypt a few directories on my machine where I keep Java source code. Since I've starting using EFS I've noticed my Windows 7 has a tendency to pop the 'Encountered a problem and needs to restart' dialog and force me to restart in 30 sec. Here's the error entry from the...

Windows 7 experiences 100% disk busy and system compleltely unresponsive - won't even move the mouse pointer. Occurs anything from a few minutes to an hour after connecting to a VPN to which many other Windows 7 users connect with no problem. The problem sometimes clears itself in 5-30 minutes...

I run Windows 7 Professional (completely legit) on an Atom netbook (Asus 1005HA), and while i find the system at least as fast as XP, when it's really up and running, even with all the eye candy switched on, there is another thing which is not so good. Wakeups from standby are horribly slow...

Running 64-bit version. I'm not sure if this was happening before, but today I noticed that when the system is in its monitor off mode (I have it set to go after 20 minutes of non-use) the activity light on my USB drive will be blinking like crazy. Moments after I move the mouse to get back into...

I have been trying to install the x86 RC version on my Netbook, a Vye S18. It went through the installation and various reboots until it said it was finished but now just hangs during the final reboot. I've tried safe mode, VGA 640, boot to command prompt - same thing. It does the Win7 logo...