I have been experiencing an abnormally high disk usage on Windows 8.1 for a couple of months now that has greatly hindered the speed of my laptop, particularly when a process is retrieving memory from the page-file.
The disk usage often reaches 100% usage and slows the system down to a halt despite only reading and writing at a very slow rate, sometimes never even reaching beyond kilobytes a second.
Solutions I've attempted:
- Running
chkdsk /r - Disabling prefetch and superfetch (despite not owning an SSD) via their registry keys
- Manually setting the pagefile size
- Disabling the pagefile (Resulting in BSODs every week or so)
- Messing with any hard-drive related BIOS settings (there were none)
- Defragmenting the hard-drive with a rainbow of third-party and official defragmentation software
- Disabled notifications
- Any combination of the above
- Pretty much any other solution I've found searching Google and this website
I've often noticed when it hits 100% disk usage multiple processes are utilizing 0.1% of the disk usage.
Process Monitor shows nothing of value.
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