"System" process high disk usage..

[MAGA Cat]

Hello everyone, i'm posting here because i'm absolutely out of ideas, i don't know what to do anymore, i've tried pretty much everything tips related to high disk usage on Win10 (disabling superfetch etc..), even multiple malware cleaning software, i can't find issues anymore, i also tried a SMART scan for Seagate HDD etc..

I noticed having in-game lags like every 10 secs, and so i tried looking at taskmgr while playing, and the only noticeable thing was the system process gradually going to a 100% Disk usage, and slowly going down, then going up, i'm really not sure anymore..

I wish someone actually has an answer for me before i start with a fresh win10 install' so..

Thanks in advance :)

My specs:
Win10 64Bit
16 Gb Ram
I7 6700K
Gefore 1080
931Gb Seagate

[[wan-clan.org] Gordy Freeman]

Which AntiVirus are you using?

[MAGA Cat]

Well actually i'm back to no antivirus, i uninstalled avast earlier, and i run malwarebytes sometimes, also windows defender isn't enabled, i also use SpybotS&D too but it doesn't really count as as AV i guess, i'm just saying in case it may have to do with my issues ^^

[✪Amelia]

：p

[MAGA Cat]

Originally posted by Red ☆ A ☆:

：p

ahah, that helped :p

[LUCIDO]

-D

[MonkehMaster]

you can try using and external virus scanner (or portable scanner) to check for viruses as it checks for them by booting with the usb and mounting the os but not running said os to check for viruses.

that being said something is writing or reading to your hard drive constantly? checking task manager should yeild a culprit and forcing it closed should help.. i find mostly when mine does it randomly but not frequently is the trusted installer process which is win update... turning off win update should help if thats the case.. but in win 10 i hear you cant turn it off.. while it may have the option to turn it off microsoft may have it set so it shows it runed off but is still running.. also i hear win 10 uses a torrenting feature for updates and os upgrades which would read/write to your hdd/ssd and alos hog bandwidth on your internet.

also not sure if your using a hdd but going ssd might help with the lag if said problem cant be resolved.

i will be upgrading my hdd to a 1TB ssd and my msata to a 1TB and my ram.. all in total will be somthing like 800+ but during black friday or cyber monday will be cut in half so about 400+ and will boost my already great performance even higher.. my only set back is i cant upgrade my graphics but i guess i could go for an external graphics card connecting to my unused wireless card slot.. altho im still thinking about that option :).

[MAGA Cat]

Originally posted by monkehmaster:

you can try using and external virus scanner (or portable scanner) to check for viruses as it checks for them by booting with the usb and mounting the os but not running said os to check for viruses.

that being said something is writing or reading to your hard drive constantly? checking task manager should yeild a culprit and forcing it closed should help.. i find mostly when mine does it randomly but not frequently is the trusted installer process which is win update... turning off win update should help if thats the case.. but in win 10 i hear you cant turn it off.. while it may have the option to turn it off microsoft may have it set so it shows it runed off but is still running.. also i hear win 10 uses a torrenting feature for updates and os upgrades which would read/write to your hdd/ssd and alos hog bandwidth on your internet.

also not sure if your using a hdd but going ssd might help with the lag if said problem cant be resolved.

i will be upgrading my hdd to a 1TB ssd and my msata to a 1TB and my ram.. all in total will be somthing like 800+ but during black friday or cyber monday will be cut in half so about 400+ and will boost my already great performance even higher.. my only set back is i cant upgrade my graphics but i guess i could go for an external graphics card connecting to my unused wireless card slot.. altho im still thinking about that option :).

Well i'm using a hdd, and the culprit clearly shows as "ntoskrnl.exe" as far as taskmsg shows. And idk why this process would go nuts only when running games, and it only uses HDD perf, my Ram and CPU are fine ^^'

And as i previously said i cleaned with multiple softwares such as MalwareBytes, Rogue Killer, Tdsskiller, and i did a scan with Defender, and everything was clean ^^'

[MAGA Cat]

By the way my WinUpdate service is set to manual and isn't actually running ^^'

[MonkehMaster]

Originally posted by m1jEN ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.:

Originally posted by monkehmaster:

you can try using and external virus scanner (or portable scanner) to check for viruses as it checks for them by booting with the usb and mounting the os but not running said os to check for viruses.

that being said something is writing or reading to your hard drive constantly? checking task manager should yeild a culprit and forcing it closed should help.. i find mostly when mine does it randomly but not frequently is the trusted installer process which is win update... turning off win update should help if thats the case.. but in win 10 i hear you cant turn it off.. while it may have the option to turn it off microsoft may have it set so it shows it runed off but is still running.. also i hear win 10 uses a torrenting feature for updates and os upgrades which would read/write to your hdd/ssd and alos hog bandwidth on your internet.

also not sure if your using a hdd but going ssd might help with the lag if said problem cant be resolved.

i will be upgrading my hdd to a 1TB ssd and my msata to a 1TB and my ram.. all in total will be somthing like 800+ but during black friday or cyber monday will be cut in half so about 400+ and will boost my already great performance even higher.. my only set back is i cant upgrade my graphics but i guess i could go for an external graphics card connecting to my unused wireless card slot.. altho im still thinking about that option :).

Well i'm using a hdd, and the culprit clearly shows as "ntoskrnl.exe" as far as taskmsg shows. And idk why this process would go nuts only when running games, and it only uses HDD perf, my Ram and CPU are fine ^^'

And as i previously said i cleaned with multiple softwares such as MalwareBytes, Rogue Killer, Tdsskiller, and i did a scan with Defender, and everything was clean ^^'

so you cant kill that process? have you figured out what it is or gone to the folder its located in to figure out what it is and if its needed?

to the virus cleaning.. not saying you have one (but you could) was just suggesting that portable cleaners are better option then using ones installed and running on an already running os, as most viruses already have control over the installed antivirus and can hide or control any antivirus that is installed afterwards... portable scanner/cleaners can mount the os without running a single thing on said hdd because it is bootable and runs in it own environment and will find anything if anything is to be found :).