High Disk Usage Windows 10 Laptop

[jonnykewell1]

Hello all,

 

Have any of you experienced High disk Usage on Windows 10 after an upgrade? I've seen a couple of laptops now that seem to be hitting 99%-100% constantly making the laptop unusable. Looking in task manager the two services using the most resources are System and Service host: local system (17). Both peak at around 0.4mb/s. (Does the 17 mean that the service is running 17 times?) see screenshot below.

 

I've read online about SSD firmwares but this laptop doesn't even have an SSD in and I've also read about disabling the windows 10 helper pop ups but no difference.

 

Laptop is a Toshiba Satellite C855-1WN

Windows 10

 

Any suggestions as to what this might be would be great. Thanks

 

[smithson83]

There's a similar thread here where a guy was having this issue. In it, there is a link to a MS Page detailing a clash between Chrome and Skype.

 

I tried it, and it did reduce my disk usage quite a lot, made chrome usable again.

[jonnykewell1]

Thanks, I did a search in the windows 10 forum too and must have missed this article.