High Disk Usage on Windows 10

I have a Dell Inspiron Core i5 with 4 GB RAM and 500 GB hard disk. After upgrading to windows 10 from 8.1, I am constantly facing a high disk usage problem which is causing my machine to run a ot slower than usual. The processes that usually have a high disk usage are as follows:

1. Antimalware service executable
2. System and compressed memory

Is there any workaround for this issue?

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The trace shows that the Antimalware service (Windows Defender) is causing most disk IO and here it hangs at scanning the MFT (Master File Table) and reading data from the pagefile:

For me Defender/Microsoft Security Essentials were always slow and I never used them. Also try a different AV suite.

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You can hit Ctr + Shift + Esc and when task manager opens press the startup tab and you can disable processes that aren't necessary and have high impact.

System and compressed memory

i have seen this problem and 1 answer was disable all notifications and aplications go to settings, system, notifications and aplications and turn off all notifications (worked for me) and this

and for

Antimalware service executable

see the software credentials in properties and see if is a legit software if notCtrl+Shift+Esc En task, find the file location an delete it and see if the program is in startup (i use CCleaner to clean/delete startup programs)

Good luck man hope it works

I had to fix a Dell laptop today which was showing 100% Disk Usage. The issue got resolved when we switched the Power Plan to Balanced. It was running with Dell power mode which spiked up the CPU. The task manager was showing some other services and processes though.

Go to Power Options > Select Balanced (recommended) Setting

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