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After W10 upgrade a month ago the disk is very busy when idle
Re: Sony VAIO laptop, model VGN-NW265F, 4GB RAM. If you want any other info. please let me know.
I wiped disk and did a clean install of Windows 7 Professional and waited over a month before upgrading to W10 in mid-January 2016. During that month prior to upgrade Win 7 performed like a brand new laptop.
After upgrading from Win 7 Pro to Win 10 Pro in Jan. 2016 the hard disk is constantly busy when laptop is idle. I thought it just needed a few days to complete indexing and other Windows background tasks but it has been a month now and the disk is heating up from overuse though no errors or warnings so far.
If I touch the mousepad or keyboard the disk settles down and activity light still flickers but not as much as when left idle.
note: I also upgraded a HP desktop to Win 10 and the disk on the HP desktop does not do this whatsoever.
I tried turning off disk indexing; Windows search service and other settings but that made no difference so I turned them back on.
I understand the behavior appears normal in that when I use the laptop the disk settles to a much slower rate of busy but after a minute or two of being idle the disk activity speeds up again and will continue flickering at a high rate all day and evening unless I touch mouse or keyboard or put it to sleep.
Laptop gets pretty warm from all the disk usage and due to this I am now putting it to sleep often when not using it which I have never had to do before.
I ran PROCMON but I do not know how to read results.
Can one of you give a hand? Procmon may be helpful IF I knew what filters to set or which other tools to set and how to read results after capture. Hopefully you can provide instructions on how to set up and use PROCMON as well as analyze results.
Thanks in advance, Larry