Hello

My Windows 10 PC is permanently using 100% disk performance:



What can I do?

nothing in the list appears to be requesting that much throughput???

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If you have been into [Windows Button] + R and typed msconfig



and opened the msconfig app on the 'services' pane:



Tick the 'Hide all Microsoft services' box and click the Disable all button. Click apply.

Now open a Windows Folder and right click on the 'This PC' icon and choose Properties:



You will see the 'System' page from Control Panel:



You want to click the Advanced System Settings button marked above.

Now, once you have confirmed administrative rights, or entered the administrative credentials, on the next screen, select the Settings button in the top section, performance:



On the next page, go to the 'advanced' tab:



And select the Change button under the Virtual Memory section.

Click to select the No paging file option, and then click the Set button to make it so.

Now choose OK/Close in all of the boxes and restart the PC.

See if this makes an improvement.

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Still almost as bad - now around 90% most of the time.

Seeing this error:

Log Name: Microsoft-Windows-AppReadiness/Admin
Source: Microsoft-Windows-AppReadiness
Date: 6/17/2020 12:49:08 PM
Event ID: 214
Task Category: (1)
Level: Error
Keywords: (2)
User: SYSTEM
Computer: David-PC
Description:
'Microsoft.WindowsPhone_8wekyb3d8bbwe' install failed for Victim. Error: 'Package failed updates, dependency or conflict validation.' (65.8354027 seconds)
Event Xml:



214
0
2
1
0
0x8000000000000002

696


Microsoft-Windows-AppReadiness/Admin
David-PC



Victim
Microsoft.WindowsPhone_8wekyb3d8bbwe
1
-2147009293
65.8354027



Is this part of it?

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Press [Windows Button] + R for RUN

Enter services.msc and press [Enter]

Find Windows Update and double click:



Change the start-up type to disabled, using the drop-down list.

Click Apply

Restart the PC.

Now when restarted, go to c:\windows\SoftwareDistribution

Highlight the Downloads folder and hold down the [Shift] key and press [Delete]

This will permanently delete the downloads folder rather than sending it to the Recycle Bin

Now go back to the services screen, just as you did before, using the above instructions and find the same service again.

Change the start-up back to Automatic and press Apply

Now click Start

It will download some updates again, but after that it should calm down.

If it does not, go back to the beginning of this post and disable the Windows Update service permanently (this is a dangerous choice and should only be used as a last resort.)

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The Windows Update part solved it, the paging file thing made no difference, even putting it on another disk.

Many thanks for your help, will recommend.

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