Dell Inspiron 15 5000 100% disk and hardly functioning.

[[GSDF] Mericλn]

I have only had this computer for about 6 months now and this is the second time. I've tried restarting it 5 times now and each time it runs U N G O D L Y slow and task manager shows that the system is using 100% of the disk.

Runs Windows 10, 8GB ram, Intel Core I5 7th Gen

Today, the issue started around 7 PM, and i'm typing this around 9 PM, and I can barely have steam open without the entire computer coming to a complete stop. Everything had been running fine before, I had done nothing different to change the computer. The other two times, I was told to disable the function "Superfetch", which solved the issue (Til now). Now, I am unable to disable it (As it is still considered disabled), so i've been using my phone to try and hunt down a solution on Dell forums and other sites with no solution.

I hope someone here can offer assistance

And for the record, Steam stopped responding twice during the typing of this and the second time caused my computer screen to blackout and try rebooting.

[Chasseur Velites]

Do you know what speed your HDD is (7200,5400) or if your using a SSD let me know

And what GPU do you have?

[Harry Gumdropzap]

my old hard drive did the same exact thing
it was perfectly fine, then one day it just died out
it took like 20 seconds just to open file explorer and 20 minutes to start up with being at 100%
was i able to fix it? no, i just bought an ssd

[markem]

What you need to do first is to get rid of a lot of things Windows 10 sticks onto your system as well as other problems. I AM NOT A WINDOWS 10 PERSON! (Had to say that) Ok, you first need to look at your hard drive with a partition program. I have used several. The free ones are just about as good as something like Partition Magic. Get it. Check to see how much of your hard drive is given over to some other kind of partition. Mainly - some kind of backup partition. If you are going to get rid of it - BE SURE TO CHECK all manuals/online information to make sure you are not deleting an important partition. (One friend had 80% as a backup partition.) Then you have to check to see if you have some kind of auto-backup going on and that it is moving files to it. If so - you may want to get an external hard drive and back up to there. Then there is the "Oh! I didn't really want to delete that!" kind of thing. Check to see if all of your deleted files are actually deleted. This would be some kind of hidden directory. Then check your trash can. Are you just moving files there and not deleting them? Again, if you don't want to really delete the files - move them to an external hard drive. Then you want to find a program called "SpaceMonger" or spmn140. Run this program against your hard drive and it will tell you where all of the space went. Last, but not least - you have to have space for your system to function. You need somewhere around 500MB at a minimum. If you don't have it - your system will run extremely slow. In today's multi-terrabyte world - you should never run out of space on your main hard drive. If you don't have at least 500GB of hard drive space - then you really need to get at least a 500GB hard drive. Later!

[[☥] - CJ -]

Originally posted by markem:

What you need to do first is to get rid of a lot of things Windows 10 sticks onto your system as well as other problems. I AM NOT A WINDOWS 10 PERSON! (Had to say that) Ok, you first need to look at your hard drive with a partition program. I have used several. The free ones are just about as good as something like Partition Magic. Get it.

Check to see how much of your hard drive is given over to some other kind of partition. Mainly - some kind of backup partition. If you are going to get rid of it - BE SURE TO CHECK all manuals/online information to make sure you are not deleting an important partition. (One friend had 80% as a backup partition.)

Then you have to check to see if you have some kind of auto-backup going on and that it is moving files to it.

If so - you may want to get an external hard drive and back up to there. Then there is the "Oh! I didn't really want to delete that!" kind of thing. Check to see if all of your deleted files are actually deleted. This would be some kind of hidden directory. Then check your trash can. Are you just moving files there and not deleting them? Again, if you don't want to really delete the files - move them to an external hard drive.

Then you want to find a program called "SpaceMonger" or spmn140. Run this program against your hard drive and it will tell you where all of the space went. Last, but not least - you have to have space for your system to function. You need somewhere around 500MB at a minimum. If you don't have it - your system will run extremely slow. In today's multi-terrabyte world - you should never run out of space on your main hard drive. If you don't have at least 500GB of hard drive space - then you really need to get at least a 500GB hard drive. Later!

Paragraphs and spacing would be helpful, thats ungodly to read.
there, i tried to help a lil bit

Anyway to the OP
Unless you are using an SSD theres really no reason to disable superfetch

One thing to try is, disable your connection for the PC
Turn the PC off then back on after a few moments

Wait for everything to finish loading up
pull up the task manager and view All Processes and see whats running and what process is doing what

After everything settles down reconnect your internet and see how it goes.

Doing a disk cleanup while your internet is turned off is also an option, choose clean up system files if it asks, then check everything and hit Ok
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As you have Win10, and its a Dell which probably means it full of bloatware, you could clean install Win10 and delete all partitions so nothing Dell is left over.

While you dont have to do this, you can download the program SPECCY so you can copy your Win10 key. You'll automatically re register Win10 when you get online, but its always a good idea to have it just in case and you can enter the key when Win10 asks you for a key instead of selecting you dont have one.

[Nabster]

It is windows getting ready for an update, just let it do its own this and eventually (probably overnight) it will sort itself out