Extremely high intermittent disk usage

Hello,

From sometime in October, after an update, there have been periods, sometimes intermittent, sometime persisting for a long time, when Disk usage spikes up to 100%, and makes a lot of things unusable.

I did some researching, and disabled a bunch of stuff, like Windows notifications, Windows search, background intelligent transfer and superfetch, even OneDrive, but even on Windows 10 version 1511, Disk usage spikes to 100%, the offending application / service being anything from System to memory compression to 3rd party applications...

This is becoming extremely irritating, and my video playback or something else stutters a lot when disk usage jumps up, often at chronic levels, then backs down, or stays at that usage for some time.

Could anyone suggest a remedy for this? I have run out of ideas, barring a system reset...it used to work fine before an update in mid - October.

Thanks a lot.

I would try another disk. This could very well be a hardware problem.

whs said:

I would try another disk. This could very well be a hardware problem.

Hello,

It actually used to work fine just before the update. I have seen this issue, almost exactly the same, being reported in other places as well. Also I've run a host of diagnostic tests on my laptop for the disk, and they all report it's alright. Drivers are updated to Windows 10 as per OEM releases.

For example :

http://forums.windowscentral.com/skype/388912-disk-usage-very-high.html

- is one post which describes roughly the same issue. However, my problem is not related to skype, it's disabled. So are things like OneDrive etc.