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Question

100% Disk Usage?

Aug 20, 2016 7:40AM PDT

I still have 1tb of storage left on my drive, and my recovery one is empty, so how come the disk usage is so high when I try to do simple things? What can I do to fix it?

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Sadly no specific advice
Aug 20, 2016 7:55AM PDT

The 100$ (percent) question is why is my disk usage 100 percent. There are now thousands of prior discussions. I usually tackle it by sorting what app uses the most.

In half the cases at the shop, it's a failing HDD and the 100 percent is due to Windows spending all its time retrying reads.

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Some point Check 100% Disk Usage
Aug 23, 2016 2:28AM PDT

Some point Check 100% Disk Usage?

(1)Check Your Anti-Virus Software
(2)Disable Windows Search for Improved Disk Performance
(3)Disable Superfetch Service