100% Disk for minutes after Startup

Helmut said:

100% disk usage for 5-10 min, yes that is normal, occasionally. .

Helmut,
Sorry, but this NEVER has happened on my tower and happens EVERY TIME on my laptop.

Thanks for the details on Skype. I'll try that and hope I can still use Skype!!! Last update was a total mess for quite some time. Fortunately, I have Google tools that I can use instead

newmarket2 said:

Helmut,
Sorry, but this NEVER has happened on my tower and happens EVERY TIME on my laptop.

The desktop most likely has a 7200 RPM HDD while the Laptop Stock 1TB mechanical runs at 5400 RPM and has a smaller cache size. As Helmut posted there's a lot of processes that run. I recently purchased a used Lenovo Ideapad with a 6th Gen i3 to replace my "deceased" G780 running a 4th Gen i5. Until I find the time and money to replace the mechanical HDD with a SSD (or possibly install Win 8.1) I let the Wife and Kids use it unless I absolutely need to use it. It's painfully slow on Boot and even resuming from sleep. I think on your ENVY it's relatively simple to replace the HDD.

I'm sure that the disk speed on the 2 PCs is different, but i have trouble believing that one would take 10 minutes to boot and the other less than 1. The discrepancy seems too large to me.

Hello.

Can you post a Task Manager screenshot sorted by Disk Access?

eLPuSHeR said:

Hello.

Can you post a Task Manager screenshot sorted by Disk Access?

I can but I've been watching it closely during boot up and it changes every second.
Mostly
Avast Installer

but today, I started up and was able to go right to work.
Disk was around 50%
totally weird but I don't look gift horses in the mouth!

More than 20 minutes after wakeup from sleep, I'm still seeing 100% disk utilization which is slowing me to a crawl.
Here's a screen grab of Task Manager, showing what is often the case: SYSTEM and AVAST are the heaviest users, but when I look at the list of processes using disk, do these add up to 100% ????.

bro67 said:

Firefox is the issue in the screenshot. It definitely has a memory leak. That is one reason why I stopped isong it. Run the boot trace.

I could have posted 15 different cases with disk at 100% and most would not have been a result of Firefox.
Mostly, it's SYSTEM and Avast.
But, my question remains: what level of MB activity across all process should result in disk being 100%?
In this case, I'm summing to around 3.7 mb...is that 100% ??
btw, the disk's driver is up to date

Could you send me a link on how to run a boot trace?

Why are you running both Firefox and Chrome at the same time? Why having two web browsers (three, counting Edge)? Just use the one you like most. And I would definitely run another check without AVAST and with everything up to date.