Does anyone have experience with having their disk run at 100 percent in Windows 8.1?

[dsc]

My computer has been experiencing this problem quite often lately and I have tried a whole bunch of things to fix it. Today my computer has seemed to not be having this happen but I thought I had it beat once before only to have major problems a couple of days ago and yesterday. Some of what I have tried include malware removal, using the hitman removal (this is what might have worked), and disabling the search in windows. This seems to be a thing as I have tried these due to suggestions I have seen on several websites discussing this issue.

[hobbit709]

1. just the disk or processor too?

[dsc]

2. It is the disk part of the task manager

I think that refers to speed. My disk is no where near full (I have over 400 gb left out of 600 gb)

[MannyGoldstein]

3. How much RAM do you have?

I you restart the machine, does it improve for a while?

[dsc]

4. some improvement usually

ram is 4 gb with 3.82 usable.

[MannyGoldstein]

5. RAM might be filling, causing Windows to use a swap drive.

e.g., http://chaladi.me/2013/10/11/how-to-fix-windows-8-100-disk-usage-issue/

[dsc]

6. I actually just tried that a little bit ago

between posting and the first answer, and it seems to have helped. I have been at 100 a little bit since then but nowhere near as often and I am not getting as bad of slowdowns.

[MannyGoldstein]

7. Add RAM, if you can

Unless you have 32-bit Windows, which maxes out at 4 GB

You can also try to figure out what's eating all of your RAM - it may be one or more background apps that you can uninstall.

Good luck!