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HD over 98% active - culprit: Modern Setup Host?
For the past couple of days my laptop (ASUS X750JA with Intel Core i7 4700HQ @ 2.40 GHz + 6GB RAM, running 64-bit Windows 10) has been very sluggish, with newly opened windows often showing the 'Not Responding' message. On the Task Manager 'Performance' tab, I see my main hard drive (C partition with Windows 10 + program files; D partition with data) almost continually showing 98-100% active time - even though I'm doing little to nothing and only Google Chrome is running with a few open tabs.
On the 'Processes' tab, I see Dism Host Servicing Process and Modern Setup Host, which I don't normally see. When I manually end Modern Setup Host, hard disk activity immediately drops to, and stays at, the normal 'idling' level of 0-20%, and is mostly at 0%.
Why are these two processes running? I'm not installing anything. My laptop is effectively crippled when Modern Setup Host is doing whatever it's doing.
Please help to restore my laptop and its user to sanity. ;-)
Last edited by robst247; 07 Dec 2017 at 19:43.