Did your machine disk seem unusually busy, and Task Manager shows 100 disk usage?

Here is how to Lower Disk Usage in Windows 10 from 100% to normal.

Here this article helps you fix this abnormal100 percent disk usage problemon windows 10.

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What causes high disk usage?

And that slows everything down and can make your box totally unresponsive.

There may be lots of startup apps running on the background and eatup system resources.

Another excellent solution is to fire off the CHKDSK command and repair disk drive errors.

Again sometimes Security software running on the background causes high System resource usage.

Temporarily disable Antivirus software and test whether this reduces Disk usage.

It also refreshes the operating system and clears minor bugs that may present there and run at startup.

Install pending Windows Updates

Microsoft regularly drops windows updates with security enhancements and different bug fixes.

May recent windows have bug fix for windows 10 high disk usage problem.

Install windows updates improve the overall performance of your system including that of your hard drive.

Now look to see if the disk usage comes down.

If it does, you’ve got the option to permanently disable by following the steps below.

Note:Disabling this service will stop the indexing of all files.

But you will still have access to search, which will take a longer time.

Disable Background Running Apps

In Windows 10, some apps are always running in the background.

Lets Disable Them And free system resources usage include Hard disk.

Lets Run Disk Check utility and let windows to check and fix Hard Disk Errors.

Windows can resolve hard drive errors quite quickly with CHKDSK (check disk).

Disable Prefetch

Windows 10 creates Prefetch files every time you run applications on your setup.

Sometimes, your gear is trying to defrag the drive.

However, its actually a solid-state drive instead of a hard disk drive.

Hardware Acceleration and Prefetching of pages can also cause this issue.