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HP Notebook - 14-bw054au
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MY Laptop consuming 100 % disk usage after power on. Also it was getting freeze due to the 100 % usage. I do no why it was taking that much usage after power on or after some times. IT was not at all reducing. always in high level more than 70 %  while using any other application or working

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@nmk141187 

There are two very different disk stats: disk usage and disk utilization.  The first is the amount of space used and it could not be 100% or the PC would not run.  The second is the amount of disk activity -- and that can be 100% routinely, as well as the processor being 100%, when Windows Updates runs -- which happens every week.  And that would happen shortly after you booted the PC and connected to the Internet.



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@WAWood

 

Thanks for your response. if it happens weekly once no problem. but it happening daily 3 to 4 times of the task manager disk shows 100% and the applications are freeze .

 

 

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Hi Friends,

 

Here I am sharing the issue i'm facing on my laptop.

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@nmk141187 

As I suspected, that is Disk Utilization (amount of work) not Disk Usage (amount of space) -- and as I said, Windows Update, which runs every week without your knowledge or permission, will do that.



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