Why is my disk usage 100% on startup on a Lenovo Notebook E540 running Windows 8.1 Pro 64bit?
I have a Lenovo Notebook E540, with Windows 8.1 Pro 64bit
and with each startup the system will be almost stopped for more than 15 mins.
When I checked the task manager, I found out that my disk usage is 100% (!!) and there is nothing that I can see on the list that is taking hardly any space.
I searched everywhere, tried to stop the SuperFetch service or changing the page file configuration and nothing worked.
It’s really frustrating and I have no clue what the problem might be.
windows-8.1 performance lenovo-laptop
edited Mar 8 '15 at 7:12
JakeGould
30.9k1093137
asked Mar 8 '15 at 6:30
3oon
112
add a comment |
I have a Lenovo Notebook E540, with Windows 8.1 Pro 64bit
and with each startup the system will be almost stopped for more than 15 mins.
When I checked the task manager, I found out that my disk usage is 100% (!!) and there is nothing that I can see on the list that is taking hardly any space.
I searched everywhere, tried to stop the SuperFetch service or changing the page file configuration and nothing worked.
It’s really frustrating and I have no clue what the problem might be.
windows-8.1 performance lenovo-laptop
edited Mar 8 '15 at 7:12
JakeGould
30.9k1093137
asked Mar 8 '15 at 6:30
3oon
112
capture a boot trace (pastebin.com/CYGqRZXE) and share it. Here I can see the DISK activity and which process causes it.
– magicandre1981
Mar 8 '15 at 8:23
How much RAM? At startup, besides superfetch, there are a number of things thay may happed, like windows checking for updates, antivirus (if any) checking for updates, antivirus (if configured) doing a quick scan
– Dan
Mar 8 '15 at 8:58
add a comment |
I have a Lenovo Notebook E540, with Windows 8.1 Pro 64bit
and with each startup the system will be almost stopped for more than 15 mins.
When I checked the task manager, I found out that my disk usage is 100% (!!) and there is nothing that I can see on the list that is taking hardly any space.
I searched everywhere, tried to stop the SuperFetch service or changing the page file configuration and nothing worked.
It’s really frustrating and I have no clue what the problem might be.
windows-8.1 performance lenovo-laptop
edited Mar 8 '15 at 7:12
JakeGould
30.9k1093137
asked Mar 8 '15 at 6:30
3oon
112
I have a Lenovo Notebook E540, with Windows 8.1 Pro 64bit
and with each startup the system will be almost stopped for more than 15 mins.
When I checked the task manager, I found out that my disk usage is 100% (!!) and there is nothing that I can see on the list that is taking hardly any space.
I searched everywhere, tried to stop the SuperFetch service or changing the page file configuration and nothing worked.
It’s really frustrating and I have no clue what the problem might be.
windows-8.1 performance lenovo-laptop
windows-8.1 performance lenovo-laptop
edited Mar 8 '15 at 7:12
JakeGould
30.9k1093137
asked Mar 8 '15 at 6:30
3oon
112
edited Mar 8 '15 at 7:12
JakeGould
30.9k1093137
asked Mar 8 '15 at 6:30
3oon
112
edited Mar 8 '15 at 7:12
JakeGould
30.9k1093137
edited Mar 8 '15 at 7:12
JakeGould
30.9k1093137
edited Mar 8 '15 at 7:12
JakeGould
30.9k1093137
30.9k1093137
asked Mar 8 '15 at 6:30
3oon
112
asked Mar 8 '15 at 6:30
3oon
112
asked Mar 8 '15 at 6:30
3oon
112
112
capture a boot trace (pastebin.com/CYGqRZXE) and share it. Here I can see the DISK activity and which process causes it.
– magicandre1981
Mar 8 '15 at 8:23
How much RAM? At startup, besides superfetch, there are a number of things thay may happed, like windows checking for updates, antivirus (if any) checking for updates, antivirus (if configured) doing a quick scan
– Dan
Mar 8 '15 at 8:58
add a comment |
capture a boot trace (pastebin.com/CYGqRZXE) and share it. Here I can see the DISK activity and which process causes it.
– magicandre1981
Mar 8 '15 at 8:23
How much RAM? At startup, besides superfetch, there are a number of things thay may happed, like windows checking for updates, antivirus (if any) checking for updates, antivirus (if configured) doing a quick scan
– Dan
Mar 8 '15 at 8:58
capture a boot trace (pastebin.com/CYGqRZXE) and share it. Here I can see the DISK activity and which process causes it.
– magicandre1981
Mar 8 '15 at 8:23
capture a boot trace (pastebin.com/CYGqRZXE) and share it. Here I can see the DISK activity and which process causes it.
– magicandre1981
Mar 8 '15 at 8:23
How much RAM? At startup, besides superfetch, there are a number of things thay may happed, like windows checking for updates, antivirus (if any) checking for updates, antivirus (if configured) doing a quick scan
– Dan
Mar 8 '15 at 8:58
How much RAM? At startup, besides superfetch, there are a number of things thay may happed, like windows checking for updates, antivirus (if any) checking for updates, antivirus (if configured) doing a quick scan
– Dan
Mar 8 '15 at 8:58
add a comment |
2 Answers
2
active
oldest
votes
(The problem here could be any of literally dozens of programs, so this answer will not be conclusive, but it should tell you how to find out what the problem is.)
That "disk usage" counter does not refer to how full the disk is, it's how busy it is. 100% busy for 15 minutes is definitely excessive.
From Task Manager's Performance tab, click "Open Resource Monitor". In that display, click the "Disk" tab. This should show you which processes are hitting the disk, and which files are being accessed. This should tell you what programs are the culprits.
Since this is clearly something that is happening at startup time, you might use the "Autoruns" tool from sysinternals.com to investigate everything that is set to start when you boot, or when you log in.
An interesting diagnostic step for these problems is to create another user account and see if the same problem happens there. If it doesn't, the issue is something that is set to start up when you log in (the per-user settings). Autoruns will distinguish between per-user and system-wide startup programs.
answered Mar 8 '15 at 7:23
Jamie Hanrahan
17.8k34078
add a comment |
More on the previous answer try doing a benchmark on your HDD and see the results, this could tell you if you're HDD is running slow and is defective.
Furthermore, if you can't figure out what's causing the issue you can always reinstall Windows and see how that works out for you. If it's not the HDD defective, you probably got some kind of bloatware.
answered Dec 26 '17 at 23:12
Pushk1n
1
add a comment |
Your Answer
StackExchange.ready(function() {
var channelOptions = {
tags: "".split(" "),
id: "3"
};
initTagRenderer("".split(" "), "".split(" "), channelOptions);
StackExchange.using("externalEditor", function() {
// Have to fire editor after snippets, if snippets enabled
if (StackExchange.settings.snippets.snippetsEnabled) {
StackExchange.using("snippets", function() {
createEditor();
});
}
else {
createEditor();
}
});
function createEditor() {
StackExchange.prepareEditor({
heartbeatType: 'answer',
autoActivateHeartbeat: false,
convertImagesToLinks: true,
noModals: true,
showLowRepImageUploadWarning: true,
reputationToPostImages: 10,
bindNavPrevention: true,
postfix: "",
imageUploader: {
brandingHtml: "Powered by u003ca class="icon-imgur-white" href="https://imgur.com/"u003eu003c/au003e",
contentPolicyHtml: "User contributions licensed under u003ca href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/"u003ecc by-sa 3.0 with attribution requiredu003c/au003e u003ca href="https://stackoverflow.com/legal/content-policy"u003e(content policy)u003c/au003e",
allowUrls: true
},
onDemand: true,
discardSelector: ".discard-answer"
,immediatelyShowMarkdownHelp:true
});
}
});
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
StackExchange.ready(
function () {
StackExchange.openid.initPostLogin('.new-post-login', 'https%3a%2f%2fsuperuser.com%2fquestions%2f886907%2fwhy-is-my-disk-usage-100-on-startup-on-a-lenovo-notebook-e540-running-windows-8%23new-answer', 'question_page');
}
);
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
2 Answers
2
active
oldest
votes
2 Answers
2
active
oldest
votes
active
oldest
votes
active
oldest
votes
(The problem here could be any of literally dozens of programs, so this answer will not be conclusive, but it should tell you how to find out what the problem is.)
That "disk usage" counter does not refer to how full the disk is, it's how busy it is. 100% busy for 15 minutes is definitely excessive.
From Task Manager's Performance tab, click "Open Resource Monitor". In that display, click the "Disk" tab. This should show you which processes are hitting the disk, and which files are being accessed. This should tell you what programs are the culprits.
Since this is clearly something that is happening at startup time, you might use the "Autoruns" tool from sysinternals.com to investigate everything that is set to start when you boot, or when you log in.
An interesting diagnostic step for these problems is to create another user account and see if the same problem happens there. If it doesn't, the issue is something that is set to start up when you log in (the per-user settings). Autoruns will distinguish between per-user and system-wide startup programs.
answered Mar 8 '15 at 7:23
Jamie Hanrahan
17.8k34078
add a comment |
(The problem here could be any of literally dozens of programs, so this answer will not be conclusive, but it should tell you how to find out what the problem is.)
That "disk usage" counter does not refer to how full the disk is, it's how busy it is. 100% busy for 15 minutes is definitely excessive.
From Task Manager's Performance tab, click "Open Resource Monitor". In that display, click the "Disk" tab. This should show you which processes are hitting the disk, and which files are being accessed. This should tell you what programs are the culprits.
Since this is clearly something that is happening at startup time, you might use the "Autoruns" tool from sysinternals.com to investigate everything that is set to start when you boot, or when you log in.
An interesting diagnostic step for these problems is to create another user account and see if the same problem happens there. If it doesn't, the issue is something that is set to start up when you log in (the per-user settings). Autoruns will distinguish between per-user and system-wide startup programs.
answered Mar 8 '15 at 7:23
Jamie Hanrahan
17.8k34078
add a comment |
(The problem here could be any of literally dozens of programs, so this answer will not be conclusive, but it should tell you how to find out what the problem is.)
That "disk usage" counter does not refer to how full the disk is, it's how busy it is. 100% busy for 15 minutes is definitely excessive.
From Task Manager's Performance tab, click "Open Resource Monitor". In that display, click the "Disk" tab. This should show you which processes are hitting the disk, and which files are being accessed. This should tell you what programs are the culprits.
Since this is clearly something that is happening at startup time, you might use the "Autoruns" tool from sysinternals.com to investigate everything that is set to start when you boot, or when you log in.
An interesting diagnostic step for these problems is to create another user account and see if the same problem happens there. If it doesn't, the issue is something that is set to start up when you log in (the per-user settings). Autoruns will distinguish between per-user and system-wide startup programs.
answered Mar 8 '15 at 7:23
Jamie Hanrahan
17.8k34078
(The problem here could be any of literally dozens of programs, so this answer will not be conclusive, but it should tell you how to find out what the problem is.)
That "disk usage" counter does not refer to how full the disk is, it's how busy it is. 100% busy for 15 minutes is definitely excessive.
From Task Manager's Performance tab, click "Open Resource Monitor". In that display, click the "Disk" tab. This should show you which processes are hitting the disk, and which files are being accessed. This should tell you what programs are the culprits.
Since this is clearly something that is happening at startup time, you might use the "Autoruns" tool from sysinternals.com to investigate everything that is set to start when you boot, or when you log in.
An interesting diagnostic step for these problems is to create another user account and see if the same problem happens there. If it doesn't, the issue is something that is set to start up when you log in (the per-user settings). Autoruns will distinguish between per-user and system-wide startup programs.
answered Mar 8 '15 at 7:23
Jamie Hanrahan
17.8k34078
edited Mar 8 '15 at 9:28
answered Mar 8 '15 at 7:23
Jamie Hanrahan
17.8k34078
answered Mar 8 '15 at 7:23
Jamie Hanrahan
17.8k34078
answered Mar 8 '15 at 7:23
Jamie Hanrahan
17.8k34078
17.8k34078
add a comment |
add a comment |
More on the previous answer try doing a benchmark on your HDD and see the results, this could tell you if you're HDD is running slow and is defective.
Furthermore, if you can't figure out what's causing the issue you can always reinstall Windows and see how that works out for you. If it's not the HDD defective, you probably got some kind of bloatware.
answered Dec 26 '17 at 23:12
Pushk1n
1
add a comment |
More on the previous answer try doing a benchmark on your HDD and see the results, this could tell you if you're HDD is running slow and is defective.
Furthermore, if you can't figure out what's causing the issue you can always reinstall Windows and see how that works out for you. If it's not the HDD defective, you probably got some kind of bloatware.
answered Dec 26 '17 at 23:12
Pushk1n
1
add a comment |
More on the previous answer try doing a benchmark on your HDD and see the results, this could tell you if you're HDD is running slow and is defective.
Furthermore, if you can't figure out what's causing the issue you can always reinstall Windows and see how that works out for you. If it's not the HDD defective, you probably got some kind of bloatware.
answered Dec 26 '17 at 23:12
Pushk1n
1
More on the previous answer try doing a benchmark on your HDD and see the results, this could tell you if you're HDD is running slow and is defective.
Furthermore, if you can't figure out what's causing the issue you can always reinstall Windows and see how that works out for you. If it's not the HDD defective, you probably got some kind of bloatware.
answered Dec 26 '17 at 23:12
Pushk1n
1
answered Dec 26 '17 at 23:12
Pushk1n
1
answered Dec 26 '17 at 23:12
Pushk1n
1
answered Dec 26 '17 at 23:12
Pushk1n
1
1
add a comment |
add a comment |
Thanks for contributing an answer to Super User!
- Please be sure to answer the question. Provide details and share your research!
But avoid …
- Asking for help, clarification, or responding to other answers.
- Making statements based on opinion; back them up with references or personal experience.
To learn more, see our tips on writing great answers.
Some of your past answers have not been well-received, and you're in danger of being blocked from answering.
Please pay close attention to the following guidance:
- Please be sure to answer the question. Provide details and share your research!
But avoid …
- Asking for help, clarification, or responding to other answers.
- Making statements based on opinion; back them up with references or personal experience.
To learn more, see our tips on writing great answers.
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
StackExchange.ready(
function () {
StackExchange.openid.initPostLogin('.new-post-login', 'https%3a%2f%2fsuperuser.com%2fquestions%2f886907%2fwhy-is-my-disk-usage-100-on-startup-on-a-lenovo-notebook-e540-running-windows-8%23new-answer', 'question_page');
}
);
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
capture a boot trace (pastebin.com/CYGqRZXE) and share it. Here I can see the DISK activity and which process causes it.
– magicandre1981
Mar 8 '15 at 8:23
How much RAM? At startup, besides superfetch, there are a number of things thay may happed, like windows checking for updates, antivirus (if any) checking for updates, antivirus (if configured) doing a quick scan
– Dan
Mar 8 '15 at 8:58