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Disk utilization (I/O) routinely at 100 % in windows 10
It seems recently that my Hard drive utilization consistently stays between 90% and 100%. I have shut down as much back ground services as I can find and stopped as many sartup services as I could see that weren't directly OS related. However disk utilization sits very high on my alienware laptop purchased November 2011. It is going on around 5 years old in November and probably need a new one, but, it's still o.k. for most things. 8 core processor at around 3 Ghz I 7 processor, 8 gig of Ram and 7200 RPM hard drive with Nvidia 555 graphics card.
The computer has run hot enough to actually cause a physical burn on my leg. The memory, cpu, and other activities generally at 0 to 30%. However disk I/O is normally 90-100%. If I can get the disk I/O to calm down then the computer runs pretty decent, but, that is rare.
With the Disk I/O so high, just running anything, applications that used to run fast like Office are slow. This seems to be only an issue with running windows 10. I didn't have this type of issue with Windows 7.
I'm sitting at 150-200 GB free out of 500GB. Scan disk and defrag run weekly. Auto updates run routinely on windows. Any suggestions on what I should be looking for? I have run Lavasoft's ad aware (and removed it) and AVG virus scan, and aside from the normal cookies and things like that there's no sign of viruses.
Everything seems optimized, but the hard disk I/O seems to slow everything down and I'm not sure what it's actually reading and writing... all the time!