100 percent disk usage

[Anjit]

Most of the time the disk usage speed is 100 percent.  Due to this even vlc doesn't run smoothly. CPU  and ram is performing well but disk usage speed is very low and 100 percent. How can i solve this problem?

[WAWood]

@Anjit 

Your disk spins at a constant rate, so it is the same speed all the time.

Disk utilization is a measure of the usage of the disk, not its speed, and with Windows 10, updates come out every week and when they run, as they will do automatically, that will drive disk utilization to 100% -- sometimes for hours at a time.

But that should only happen once a week.  If you are seeing that all the time, something is writing to your drive nearly all the time and we have no way of determining what that is. 

To find out, you would need to do the following:

1) press ctl-alt-del and select task manager

2) select the startup tab and look at the items that are enabled

3) disable them one at a time, reboot, and see if your disk utilization drops

4) when it does, the last item you disabled is the one causing the problem

Good Luck