Thank you for the process of elimination description dalchina, and again thank you WOT for your help. I did follow the link and read how the Delayed Launcher plays a security roll. I believe now...

Good morning, if it's still morning where you are.

Some good news to report, I disabled Intel Delayed Launcher and Conexant Smart Audio and it dropped the disk usage to 60%...much better! I also...

"Sort it by write activity before taking a screenshot"

Will try it again a little later.

WOT, first, thank you for this help. My wife has called me twice for dinner, there won't be a third. :)

I have an HP printer attached, so that must be it.

I have McAfee Total Protection...

WOT, sorry, have I not provided the Disk Activity? Please see above.

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If you can believe it the disk usage dropped to 5% very quickly this time, but not the norm.

When the screen shot above was taken it was running 100% disk though.

Apologies

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Hi WOT.

It's an Ideapad 310

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I purchased a Lenovo laptop 6 weeks ago from a reputable local retailer. I was traveling and started using the laptop after my return, which unfortunately was after the 30 day return policy. The...