100% Disk Usage in Windows 10 Tips 

I liked that you explained why disabling each service might help instead of just blindly disabling them without explanation. +Sub

I had that problem. I tried everything in the last video. Got rid of my crappy hard drive for ssd. Now it runs beautiful.

Been having Disk Usage problems for some amount of time, and all the other videos don't go into exact detail as to why you need to disable these specific programs you showed. But unlike them, you point it out and you explain enough for those whom aren't tech savy to understand why these services are even there to begin with. Thank you, CPU Tech.

Took my disk usage from 100% down to 8%. Absolutely wonderful. Thank you so much.

The best part of this video that others fail at is, explaining what each disabling does. 10/10

You are one of the best tech teachers I have ever seen, not exaggerating. Clean, clear and concise. Thank you so much.

I’ve tried various things for years but your tips actually helped the problem! I was also scared of doing some of the things others suggested because I had no idea what it would do to my computer. Thank you so much.

THANK YOU so much - your first tip was missing from EVERY other video I've watched on this. Disabling Superfetch worked at first but the next time i went a week or so without using my laptop it was back at 100% - i did everything short of chkdsk because my settings wouldn't let me run one (?). The Connected user Telemtry function was the new culprit. You are a goddamn hero, my man!

A fun tip that I always suggest: let you laptop run idle every so often, especially if you rarely use it for long period of time. It lets Windows rearrange items and complete tasks that would otherwise bog down your sporadic usage!

You're a lifesaver. Disabling SysMain did the trick for me. Disk usage went from 100% to hovering around 10-15%. Excellent tips that actually works! Thanks man.

Thank you! This was a great video. You were clear, consice, and easy to follow. The 100% disk useage has been plaguing me and making it difficult to get important work done. Fixing the driver bug was what resolved it for me. I know I need to just give in and buy an SSD but in the meantime this has made life much easier.

Thank you. I don't know which step help me but one of them did. I've seen some people in these comments say none of these steps help their problem but I'm glad I'm not one of those people. I'm glad to report that all of these tips still work in 2022.

In the section about editing the registry (that is the section about the disk controller), the Regedit tool has a SEARCH function - much better than trying to visually match the string with the listing in Regedit. If you click on "Edit" at the top of the Regedit window, one option is Search.

Thank you so much for explaining what disabling the services you mentioned does. I really appreciate this. I have an online exam tomorrow morning and the disk usage slows down my laptop's performance dramatically. So this helped a lot.

I only today found your site and have already learnt more than I know what to do with. I'm looking forward to checking out your back catalogue. Thank you.

The step involving the IDE Controllers worked for me. Thank you so , so much. You have no idea how relieved I am to finally fix this!

IDK how this ended up in my recommendations, but gat damn am i glad it did! Thanks d00d!

Appreciate your insight into what they actually do and why disabling htem is no big deal. SysMain was the culprit on my computer. I was CONSTANTLY hovering at 100, to the point where the computer was becoming unusable. Disable SysMain and it IMMEDIATELY dropped down to hovering around zero (albeit still bouncing around.) Thanks brother!

I searched so many videos in RU-vid none of them worked. Your tips worked . Thankyou for educating us in tech side

Dude, I watch like 5 other videos before I found yours. Yours was literally the only one that did anything. Thanks

Wow. You are absolutely amazing! I love the way you explain things (as other comments have also mentioned). I've been looking for a solution to my disk issues for a long while now and only this video has helped so far. Subbing for sure!

I would "apply" the disable prior to stopping the service. some start up right away and will be running even after you disable. Wsearch did this.

You did an EXCELLENT job with this video. Easy to watch, clearly explaining what you are doing and why. Well done. Fixed my issue with editing the registry regarding that storehci driver.

From 100% to 1% disabling Windows search! Very good, I'm thankful!🙏💖

You are a hero. I was on the verge of getting a new computer, but thanks to you there's no need

Thanks for awsome video man, I also really liked the last part that the way you spoke so sincerely

By far the best explanation how to fix your pc. My laptop is already super fast from up to an hour waiting to open a darn program. Thank you very much.

This video is great to follow along with and gain understanding. A+ video. I still have high disk usage - however disabling the driver in the last tip solved the hang-up problem that had me wondering why my disk usage was high in the first place. I'll update to an SSD to keep up with the times, but for now this totally solved my problem of browser tabs needing 5-10 minutes to load after re-start.

From 83-100% to 5% below disk usage. Thank you so much! I'm now a new subscriber

i just saw this videos while surfing, i have no doubt your previous content on this topic is most viewed

Dude. Finally i find someone that provides very complete instructions to help my friends and family with this problem (when MS pushes win10 to old pcs, it is a nightmare). Thank you! Subscribed as well!

Thanks for this. My wife's computer was constantly showing 100%. That regedit fix did the trick along with disabling sysmain. Thanks again. Thumbs up!

Don't have any problems with disc usage, but got this vid in recommended and watching just in case 😄

Wicked. First time I've seen my laptop run this far in years and it was easy to follow.

Thanks for the detailed info. Spinning disks of the 5400 and not even 7200rpm variety sadly still exist in the workplace and we all make due with what we have. Fortunately for you and Chris Titus Tuning Scripts you've made PCs Great Again. 👍

I switched these off last year and now they are back on. Had to go back to this. Great video. Thanks.

The only reasons you would want a Hard Disk Drive is: 1) To write/read large data "linearly" in the most efficient manner like Audio/Video. 2) For Archiving in general. Hard Disk Drives last a LOT longer than SSDs in use and storage. Nowadays, the OS drive and general data drives should always be a SATA SSD at the very least or a M.2 for best performance for sure.

This dude is a legend 🙌🏾💯

I had already looked into this quite a bit and got my disk from crawling at 100% constantly to about 75%. As soon as I stopped the first service (Microsoft malware) you mentioned, it hit 0% and has been staying in the single digits. Thanks, man!

Had the Storaci Issue and never would've gotten the help elsewhere on the internet, thanks a ton!

Thank you for the tips :) One thing to avoid the 100% CPU Usage is to make your dedicated graphics card (if you have one) your default card. Works miracles!

Thank you so much! My computer was crashing all the time and was so slow. I just found out today, that my disk % was at a 100. I disabled the first two on your list, and now it is at about 2% and 59% when I play a relatively heavy game (for my PC at least). And it surely helped with the speed a lot. Looking forward to see if it has helped with the crashing in the long run too (or if I need a new PSU), but it has not crashed since.

You're an absolute legend. Was about to heave the thing in the bin. Thank you for taking the time to explain everything so clearly. Liked and subbed.

I've just followed the tips accordingly, and it worked for me. My disk usage dropped from 100% to 7%, sometimes it tends to increase but just for a while, however, I can say that the problem was solved. Thanks

Thanks for the help! Have an extra sub on your computer journey, and good luck!

Great video, I've done a lot of the work you've demonstrated here for helping friend's & family to lower their 100% disc usage, but the regedit one was new to me. Hence, I haven't had 100% success with every time I've encountered the problem. One minor, if I may; regedit, pronounced rej-edit - as in, registry.. not reg as in regular.

Awesome tips! I have been having trouble with my lenovo laptop and the Sysmain thing did the trick for me . From 95+ disk usage to almost 35% now. Thanks so much!!!

WATCHED ALL THE RECENT VEDIOS BUT THIS 2 YEAR OLD VID HELPED MY PROBLEM. THANK YOUUUU

Disabling Connected User Experiences and Telemetry fixed it instantly for me, wow.

disabled sysmain and went from 100% to 3% disk usage thats insane

Wow. Great video, man. It had crossed my mind that my 100% disk usage came down to the OS expecting an SSD to be in use. I mean, it IS becoming the standard now and for good reason. Thanks for the direct and informative tips, brother. Liked and subscribed.

Great advice, worked like a charm!! I've been having this issue for some time now and yours was the only solution! Thanks!

In lieu of this being posted again, I mentioned having 100% disk read issues and a whole layer of wacky problems related to kernal issues. Long story short, repairing Windows 10's system files completely fixed the disk usage problem. Whatever it was that was corrupt somehow some way was entirely fixed after repairing the OS. Its pretty ironic actually, that's usually the last resort method I choose after exhausting everything else and even that rarely works. Usually formatting is the end point. Basically, if you've tried everything here I would highly recommend just trying the most obvious thing outside of windows update and that is just using the repair function for the OS.

The content was impressive. Straight to the point, clear concise explanation on what we doing , and it works too..damn i was late to find this channel. Thanks!

Disabling the MSI support worked for me... I was searching for the fix from 6 months and was about to buy a new ssd but thanks to this guy..!🔥👍 he deserves a sub

Can't thank you enough, this video was the most useful, informative and easy to follow guide on this issue!

This video is the best video I have ever seen, well presented!!!

amazing, the way u explain. !!subscribed !!

Thank you this has been really helpful my PC was working at hundred percent disk usage and I was so frustrated about that but thank you your video really helps me a lot and thank you

The 2nd to last option finally fixed. I'd expect the disk to be 100% for a long time when I didn't even do anything yet but not anymore. Well, it still goes up to 100% but I'll just wait for a moment and it decreases dramatically. This made a huge difference. And the update also fixed it, thank you very much man.

The INSTANT I turned off search my disk usage went from 100% to 1%. Thank you!

Just so you know, the all the High Performance plan does is is stop the CPU from idling at a lower clock speed, it does not affect disk usage at all. I would actually recommend leaving it on balanced unless you know that you definitely need it on the High Performance plan. Leaving it on high performance will likely significantly reduce battery life on laptops when just doing basic tasks like browsing the web or watching videos where the CPU is likely barely being used anyway.

The driver one fixed it. For the last 2 years i have been "short term" fixing it. It instantly droped to 3% from 100% . Thank you so much

when i tell you i was this close to throwing my pc out my window i mean it fr fr thank you brother straight to the point, explaining and fixed the problem and was way more comforting then watching a video with a robot voice talking to me giving some bullshit solution u earned a sub n a like my man

I disabled “Connected user experiences and Telemetry” and my disk went from a constant 100% all the time instantly down to about 15%

This guy is awesome it lowered my disk usage but im still going to get a ssd because its worth it

Just the first 2 steps helped out an insane amount, definitely got a new sub👌🏻 awesome job

Bro, you can' t imagine how you helped me with this video, thanks a bunch, I was achieving in more than an hour what I was usually achieving in 20 minutes, No Hanging anymore !

Honestly, the single biggest improvement I found on older Win 10 PC's regarding high disk usage, especially at startup, upgrade to an SSD. Less then $100 and breathes new life into older PC's and laptops. That and bump RAM to 8GB. Those two changes alone help dramatically.

Installed SSD about 3 weeks ago... now i have 1 SSD for Windows and normal HD for other... SSD IS ANOTHER WORLD.... AMAZING FAST.

year for all of us, for so- it's still ongoing. i respect you for being honest as that's what's been keeping a bit sane recently, just being

This helped me solve a slow workstation PC. Thanks!

great man. great content. subbing cause you deserve the community

Champion stuff as usual

Thank you so much! After so many videos, your tips helped me to take my disk usage from 100% to 4% 😊

Useful tips! I discovered your channel last night. I'll be flipping some older systems to win 10 thanks to you. Right now I'm on an older win 10 build - on a netbook that was just given to me. Perfect if I want a larger screen than my phone when travelling. The more resources I can free up on it the better. I might try slimmed win 10 version later on. Thanks and subscribed!

You’re a beast bro!! Thanks a lot!

Nice find with the driver issue. You could have pasted the path in regedit as opposed to scrolling to find the string by the way 😉

This is the most helpful video if your trying to make a gaming pc out of an old computer thank you so much

i never usually comment on videos but this one definitely deserves it!!!! it really helped be out and brought my CPU from 60% down to 4%. keep up the amazing work!!!!!

Thank you Sir, have a great days to you too.

Beautiful bro,beautiful! This video is the mash-up of all those tips scattered on RU-vid! All in one. But does disabling automatic pagefile monitoring and setting it to manual also help?

What a dramatic change i noticed!! Thanks man

You are a genius man, the part about SATA driver fix for me!...I had not seen it in any other video, subscribed!

The SysMain did it for me! Thanks for the tips.

System main was my problem. God Bless you

Disabling those first two applications you mentioned dropped my disk usage from 100% to 3-5% at idle. I built this PC and it is a miracle it works at all because I am a dumbass, but your expertise has helped me tremendously. Thank you.

Thank you so much for helping me about this my drive activity times drop down to 4%-5% and now I'm not worry about this anymore (I am using 2 or 3 decades old laptop with win 11)

I just upgraded to and ssd for my home recording studio pc. I was floored how fast it boots compared to the hdd. I got a 500gb WD blue at Walmart for 59 bucks. Best 59 bucks I’ve spent on a computer.

Get an SSD, put your OS in it and put your data on HDD.

Hi, before I watched your video, I had just about trashed my HP Prodesk-400. To speed up, I even increased RAM to 32GB and HDD to 1TB but to no avail until I followed you instructions in this video. A BIG THANK YOU! Now my PC flies superfast.

Hey thanks man this fixed my issue with the 100% disk. Much appreciated. I threw a Like and a sub thanks again!

Thanks! With 2 of your applications, looks like I gained a gig in ram!

1:40 on and especially calling out Microsoft for their Windows malware earned an instant sub from me. Accurate and useful info. Thanks.

Thank you so much for such an informative and helpful video! I've done most of the tips you mentioned in the video (minus the search one) and I'm hoping this will help a lot with my main SSD usage :)

THANK YOU, was struggling after windows 10 update but this video helps me

Nicely ,clearly explaining Work 100% Honestly Friendly ways No ad No bull**** No scam Subscribed 👍

Thank you so much... Now I know wtf these services do and not just disable them blindly...

10:39 i half expected him to say "like and subscribe and all the troubles will go away." this was a great video btw so i will subscribe.

Omg!... You just saved my career right now.. My system has been distorting like crazy for months now. I basically couldn't do anything on my music production software until I thought to search RU-vid for help. I'm glad I found your video. Right now my CPU peaks at 15% max..... this is a miracle..... Thank you❤.