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System and compressed memory high disk usage
Hi everyone. I am currently having issues trying to diagnose the system and compressed memory bug that causes slow disk operations. I am running a computer that I have built myself. i5 6600k, 16 GB of RAM, 2 SSD and 1 HDD. The slow operations only happen on the HDD. I can notice this when folders start to become slow and playing saved videos start to lag and drop frames. I can copy these videos and watch them just fine on the SSDs without any lag at all. I have tried multiple fixes such as disabling the notifications from windows and One Drive does not seem to be installed on my computer. I have also tried all of the solutions here BEST FIX: 100% Disk Usage by “System and Compressed Memory” in Windows 10 - Appuals.com I just tried the second one now so I'm not sure if that's going to work. I'm just a little worried that disabling the second one will have some kind of negative impact on my computer. I also have the same symptoms as the user suggested fix as mentioned in that link, but I am not sure how to go about changing the settings like they did.
It is also worth noting that this hard drive is from a previous laptop that I put into my desktop. The system boots off of one of the SSDs and the HDD that is slow is side drive. I have tried repairing and checking the integrity of the system files, defragging the drive which I thought would help, but did not. None of the services I ran reported any problems including chkdsk. Lastly, I am still running on the 1511 version of Windows since I have not received the anniversary update yet. It's tough for me to analyze the problem due to the task manager reporting that the disk usage is 33% and system and compressed memory using 0.1 mb. I'm assuming it displays it like this since I have multiple hard drives. I have had a couple instances where the computer will freeze forcing me to shut it down by holding the power button. This has not happened as of late since I am starting to catch the slowing down of the computer and restart it to get it back into a fast state.