task manager says disk at 100%???

[Wanderer3292]

so my game froze and upon reboot, my disk usage is at 100% dropping to 98 here and there. I did a quick Google search and haven't come up with anything that I know anything about, obviously a pc novice still, so I figured I'd ask here. any ideas what could cause this all of a sudden?

also , my cpu Is around 20% and memory is around 30%.

[Wanderer3292]

I'm sure no one can really tell me exactly why it's doing this, but if anyone could even tell me what exactly a really high disk usage even means, I would be greatly appreciative. I know this isn't exactly skyrim related, but since I've been gaming on pc, the people on here have always steered me in the right direction

[Jesus]

dunno

[Quevik]

Likely means your computer is downloading and installing updates. Usually a windows update but could be a program update or 2 as well. Since you posted this 43 minutes ago, I'm assuming you aren't havning issues anymore (updates should have finished) but for future reference. Not all windows updates will do it, depends on the update.

Laptops tend to reach max read/write from updates alone. Desktops don't do it as often but can. If you leave you computer on overnight, change the update time to like 4 A.M..

[Belanos]

Originally posted by Wanderer3292:

any ideas what could cause this all of a sudden?

Many programs will create temporary files on your drive when they run. Windows updates will create them as well. No doubt you have your drive stuffed so full that those temp files are filling it up completely. You need to either uninstall something, get a bigger hard drive, or add another one then move some things around. The rule of thumb is that you should leave 10% of your space empty so that there is room for those temp files to be created.

[Shellbie]

What version of windows are you using?

[Quevik]

Originally posted by Belanos:

Originally posted by Wanderer3292:

any ideas what could cause this all of a sudden?

Many programs will create temporary files on your drive when they run. Windows updates will create them as well. No doubt you have your drive stuffed so full that those temp files are filling it up completely. You need to either uninstall something, get a bigger hard drive, or add another one then move some things around. The rule of thumb is that you should leave 10% of your space empty so that there is room for those temp files to be created.

He doesn't mean that his hard drive is full, he's refering to the disk I/O statistic that you can see under task manager.

[Wanderer3292]

Originally posted by Quevik:

Likely means your computer is downloading and installing updates. Usually a windows update but could be a program update or 2 as well. Since you posted this 43 minutes ago, I'm assuming you aren't havning issues anymore (updates should have finished) but for future reference. Not all windows updates will do it, depends on the update.

Laptops tend to reach max read/write from updates alone. Desktops don't do it as often but can. If you leave you computer on overnight, change the update time to like 4 A.M..

yeah it went down to 5 percent after about 10 minutes. thanks for the reply, from what you said I'm guessing that tab is basically telling me what is currently processing? before today I've actually been looking for a source to find some basic information as to what these tabs exactly mean, among other things, if you happen to know of a good place to start. also, I'm on an alienware alpha, which from what I understand has laptop hardware , so what you said makes sense. It actually never seems to really be struggling, cpu stays at around 40 with just skyrim running, I end all other tasks before I start playing.

Originally posted by Katherine:

What version of windows are you using?

windows 10

[Shellbie]

Originally posted by Wanderer3292:

Originally posted by Quevik:

Likely means your computer is downloading and installing updates. Usually a windows update but could be a program update or 2 as well. Since you posted this 43 minutes ago, I'm assuming you aren't havning issues anymore (updates should have finished) but for future reference. Not all windows updates will do it, depends on the update.

Laptops tend to reach max read/write from updates alone. Desktops don't do it as often but can. If you leave you computer on overnight, change the update time to like 4 A.M..

yeah it went down to 5 percent after about 10 minutes. thanks for the reply, from what you said I'm guessing that tab is basically telling me what is currently processing? before today I've actually been looking for a source to find some basic information as to what these tabs exactly mean, among other things, if you happen to know of a good place to start. also, I'm on an alienware alpha, which from what I understand has laptop hardware , so what you said makes sense. It actually never seems to really be struggling, cpu stays at around 40 with just skyrim running, I end all other tasks before I start playing.

Originally posted by Katherine:

What version of windows are you using?

windows 10

Open the Windows settings page

-Update and Security->Windows Update->Advanced Options->Choose how updates are delivered
-Updates from more than one place->Off

Open your task manager and open the services page

-Background Intelligent Transfer Service->disabled
-Superfetch->disabled
-Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service->disabled
-Windows Update->disabled
-All Xbox services->disabled

Open CCleaner if you have installed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCleaner

Tools->Uninstall->Remove all weather, movies and useless apps that windows have installed in your pc without your consent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TGdnYnbuyY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgKJMsJ-6XU
On your PC icon on the desktop select manage

-Task Scheduler->Library->Windows->Windows Update folder->delete all task inside this folder

[Wanderer3292]

Originally posted by Katherine:

Originally posted by Wanderer3292:

yeah it went down to 5 percent after about 10 minutes. thanks for the reply, from what you said I'm guessing that tab is basically telling me what is currently processing? before today I've actually been looking for a source to find some basic information as to what these tabs exactly mean, among other things, if you happen to know of a good place to start. also, I'm on an alienware alpha, which from what I understand has laptop hardware , so what you said makes sense. It actually never seems to really be struggling, cpu stays at around 40 with just skyrim running, I end all other tasks before I start playing.




windows 10

Open the Windows settings page

-Update and Security->Windows Update->Advanced Options->Choose how updates are delivered
-Updates from more than one place->Off

Open your task manager and open the services page

-Background Intelligent Transfer Service->disabled
-Superfetch->disabled
-Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service->disabled
-Windows Update->disabled
-All Xbox services->disabled

Open CCleaner if you have installed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCleaner

Tools->Uninstall->Remove all weather, movies and useless apps that windows have installed in your pc without your consent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TGdnYnbuyY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgKJMsJ-6XU
On your PC icon on the desktop select manage

-Task Scheduler->Library->Windows->Windows Update folder->delete all task inside this folder

thank you very much

[Shellbie]

Originally posted by Wanderer3292:

Originally posted by Katherine:

Open the Windows settings page

-Update and Security->Windows Update->Advanced Options->Choose how updates are delivered
-Updates from more than one place->Off

Open your task manager and open the services page

-Background Intelligent Transfer Service->disabled
-Superfetch->disabled
-Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service->disabled
-Windows Update->disabled
-All Xbox services->disabled

Open CCleaner if you have installed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCleaner

Tools->Uninstall->Remove all weather, movies and useless apps that windows have installed in your pc without your consent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TGdnYnbuyY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgKJMsJ-6XU
On your PC icon on the desktop select manage

-Task Scheduler->Library->Windows->Windows Update folder->delete all task inside this folder

thank you very much

Happy gaming!

[Void#151625]

small tipp
empty %tmp%
all cache garbage gather in there for each users from windows 7,8 versions and 10
there might be like a hell lot of GigaByte of rubbish that might clear up some space and speed up your pc......
depending on when you last deleted stuff in there in worste case you will have 100-300 GB of garbage in there , if not even more......


symptomes old cache can cause:
over all slow pc preformance, black screen, blue screen, error windows when starting program or games, no sound bugs, no images, weird textures, scarpy sound and many more can be caused by haveing %tmp% full with old cache crap that reference to old links that no longer exists, but have not been removed!

only an updated cache is a good cache........
cause if its dated it will cause bad references to no existing data!