Explorer causes 100% disk usage and computer to run very slow












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On windows 10 anniversary, Explorer seems to be causing the disk usage to go up to 100% and response times of higher than two seconds. I have confirmed it was explorer by killing the process, watching the disk usage drop down and restarting it and watching it go back to 100%. Is there any possible solutions to this, as using windows without explorer makes things complicated










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  • open a cmd.exe as admin adn run this command wpr.exe -satrt CPU -start DiskIO -start FileIO && timeout -1 && wpr.exe -stop C:HighDiskFileIO.etl and capture the high disk IO. If you captured it, zip the HighDiskFileIO.etl and share it (Onedrive share link). I'll analyze what your Explorer is doing

    – magicandre1981
    Dec 18 '16 at 7:51











  • @mag 1drv.ms/u/s!AgHU-eb9bMr9h0O4Y6gYFzcza9TY

    – Blake R.
    Dec 18 '16 at 11:06











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    – Blake R.
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On windows 10 anniversary, Explorer seems to be causing the disk usage to go up to 100% and response times of higher than two seconds. I have confirmed it was explorer by killing the process, watching the disk usage drop down and restarting it and watching it go back to 100%. Is there any possible solutions to this, as using windows without explorer makes things complicated










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  • open a cmd.exe as admin adn run this command wpr.exe -satrt CPU -start DiskIO -start FileIO && timeout -1 && wpr.exe -stop C:HighDiskFileIO.etl and capture the high disk IO. If you captured it, zip the HighDiskFileIO.etl and share it (Onedrive share link). I'll analyze what your Explorer is doing

    – magicandre1981
    Dec 18 '16 at 7:51











  • @mag 1drv.ms/u/s!AgHU-eb9bMr9h0O4Y6gYFzcza9TY

    – Blake R.
    Dec 18 '16 at 11:06











  • @magicandre1981

    – Blake R.
    Dec 18 '16 at 11:07














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On windows 10 anniversary, Explorer seems to be causing the disk usage to go up to 100% and response times of higher than two seconds. I have confirmed it was explorer by killing the process, watching the disk usage drop down and restarting it and watching it go back to 100%. Is there any possible solutions to this, as using windows without explorer makes things complicated










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On windows 10 anniversary, Explorer seems to be causing the disk usage to go up to 100% and response times of higher than two seconds. I have confirmed it was explorer by killing the process, watching the disk usage drop down and restarting it and watching it go back to 100%. Is there any possible solutions to this, as using windows without explorer makes things complicated







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  • open a cmd.exe as admin adn run this command wpr.exe -satrt CPU -start DiskIO -start FileIO && timeout -1 && wpr.exe -stop C:HighDiskFileIO.etl and capture the high disk IO. If you captured it, zip the HighDiskFileIO.etl and share it (Onedrive share link). I'll analyze what your Explorer is doing

    – magicandre1981
    Dec 18 '16 at 7:51











  • @mag 1drv.ms/u/s!AgHU-eb9bMr9h0O4Y6gYFzcza9TY

    – Blake R.
    Dec 18 '16 at 11:06











  • @magicandre1981

    – Blake R.
    Dec 18 '16 at 11:07



















  • open a cmd.exe as admin adn run this command wpr.exe -satrt CPU -start DiskIO -start FileIO && timeout -1 && wpr.exe -stop C:HighDiskFileIO.etl and capture the high disk IO. If you captured it, zip the HighDiskFileIO.etl and share it (Onedrive share link). I'll analyze what your Explorer is doing

    – magicandre1981
    Dec 18 '16 at 7:51











  • @mag 1drv.ms/u/s!AgHU-eb9bMr9h0O4Y6gYFzcza9TY

    – Blake R.
    Dec 18 '16 at 11:06











  • @magicandre1981

    – Blake R.
    Dec 18 '16 at 11:07

















open a cmd.exe as admin adn run this command wpr.exe -satrt CPU -start DiskIO -start FileIO && timeout -1 && wpr.exe -stop C:HighDiskFileIO.etl and capture the high disk IO. If you captured it, zip the HighDiskFileIO.etl and share it (Onedrive share link). I'll analyze what your Explorer is doing

– magicandre1981
Dec 18 '16 at 7:51





open a cmd.exe as admin adn run this command wpr.exe -satrt CPU -start DiskIO -start FileIO && timeout -1 && wpr.exe -stop C:HighDiskFileIO.etl and capture the high disk IO. If you captured it, zip the HighDiskFileIO.etl and share it (Onedrive share link). I'll analyze what your Explorer is doing

– magicandre1981
Dec 18 '16 at 7:51













@mag 1drv.ms/u/s!AgHU-eb9bMr9h0O4Y6gYFzcza9TY

– Blake R.
Dec 18 '16 at 11:06





@mag 1drv.ms/u/s!AgHU-eb9bMr9h0O4Y6gYFzcza9TY

– Blake R.
Dec 18 '16 at 11:06













@magicandre1981

– Blake R.
Dec 18 '16 at 11:07





@magicandre1981

– Blake R.
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Ok, I checked the trace with Windows Performance Analyzer and here I see that most disk IO is caused by reading the file C:UsersblakeAppDataLocalMicrosoftWindowsNotificationswpndatabase.db-wal.



enter image description here



This is a Write-Ahead Log File which is created from SQLite database which Windows seams to use to store Notifications. Also your TOSHIBA MQ01ABD100 is a very slow HDD with its 5400rpm.



Disable as much notifications from apps as possible and look if this removes the disk IO.






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  • Thanks for taking the time to do this, unfortunately my HDD failed, which could have explained the disk response times

    – Blake R.
    Dec 19 '16 at 22:50











  • ok, failing HDD can also cause such slow performance. better buy a SSD now to solve any perf issuees related to disk. check the samsung 850 Evo

    – magicandre1981
    Dec 20 '16 at 4:23



















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I'd say it's quite likely a root kit malware that could cause such behavior (though I'm sure other things are possible as well to cause such a memory leak)



if rootkit, microsoft themselves suggest to use defender offline, as your existing antimalware probably won't detect it



http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/what-is-windows-defender-offline






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    Ok, I checked the trace with Windows Performance Analyzer and here I see that most disk IO is caused by reading the file C:UsersblakeAppDataLocalMicrosoftWindowsNotificationswpndatabase.db-wal.



    enter image description here



    This is a Write-Ahead Log File which is created from SQLite database which Windows seams to use to store Notifications. Also your TOSHIBA MQ01ABD100 is a very slow HDD with its 5400rpm.



    Disable as much notifications from apps as possible and look if this removes the disk IO.






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    • Thanks for taking the time to do this, unfortunately my HDD failed, which could have explained the disk response times

      – Blake R.
      Dec 19 '16 at 22:50











    • ok, failing HDD can also cause such slow performance. better buy a SSD now to solve any perf issuees related to disk. check the samsung 850 Evo

      – magicandre1981
      Dec 20 '16 at 4:23
















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    Ok, I checked the trace with Windows Performance Analyzer and here I see that most disk IO is caused by reading the file C:UsersblakeAppDataLocalMicrosoftWindowsNotificationswpndatabase.db-wal.



    enter image description here



    This is a Write-Ahead Log File which is created from SQLite database which Windows seams to use to store Notifications. Also your TOSHIBA MQ01ABD100 is a very slow HDD with its 5400rpm.



    Disable as much notifications from apps as possible and look if this removes the disk IO.






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    • Thanks for taking the time to do this, unfortunately my HDD failed, which could have explained the disk response times

      – Blake R.
      Dec 19 '16 at 22:50











    • ok, failing HDD can also cause such slow performance. better buy a SSD now to solve any perf issuees related to disk. check the samsung 850 Evo

      – magicandre1981
      Dec 20 '16 at 4:23














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    Ok, I checked the trace with Windows Performance Analyzer and here I see that most disk IO is caused by reading the file C:UsersblakeAppDataLocalMicrosoftWindowsNotificationswpndatabase.db-wal.



    enter image description here



    This is a Write-Ahead Log File which is created from SQLite database which Windows seams to use to store Notifications. Also your TOSHIBA MQ01ABD100 is a very slow HDD with its 5400rpm.



    Disable as much notifications from apps as possible and look if this removes the disk IO.






    share|improve this answer













    Ok, I checked the trace with Windows Performance Analyzer and here I see that most disk IO is caused by reading the file C:UsersblakeAppDataLocalMicrosoftWindowsNotificationswpndatabase.db-wal.



    enter image description here



    This is a Write-Ahead Log File which is created from SQLite database which Windows seams to use to store Notifications. Also your TOSHIBA MQ01ABD100 is a very slow HDD with its 5400rpm.



    Disable as much notifications from apps as possible and look if this removes the disk IO.







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    • Thanks for taking the time to do this, unfortunately my HDD failed, which could have explained the disk response times

      – Blake R.
      Dec 19 '16 at 22:50











    • ok, failing HDD can also cause such slow performance. better buy a SSD now to solve any perf issuees related to disk. check the samsung 850 Evo

      – magicandre1981
      Dec 20 '16 at 4:23



















    • Thanks for taking the time to do this, unfortunately my HDD failed, which could have explained the disk response times

      – Blake R.
      Dec 19 '16 at 22:50











    • ok, failing HDD can also cause such slow performance. better buy a SSD now to solve any perf issuees related to disk. check the samsung 850 Evo

      – magicandre1981
      Dec 20 '16 at 4:23

















    Thanks for taking the time to do this, unfortunately my HDD failed, which could have explained the disk response times

    – Blake R.
    Dec 19 '16 at 22:50





    Thanks for taking the time to do this, unfortunately my HDD failed, which could have explained the disk response times

    – Blake R.
    Dec 19 '16 at 22:50













    ok, failing HDD can also cause such slow performance. better buy a SSD now to solve any perf issuees related to disk. check the samsung 850 Evo

    – magicandre1981
    Dec 20 '16 at 4:23





    ok, failing HDD can also cause such slow performance. better buy a SSD now to solve any perf issuees related to disk. check the samsung 850 Evo

    – magicandre1981
    Dec 20 '16 at 4:23













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    I'd say it's quite likely a root kit malware that could cause such behavior (though I'm sure other things are possible as well to cause such a memory leak)



    if rootkit, microsoft themselves suggest to use defender offline, as your existing antimalware probably won't detect it



    http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/what-is-windows-defender-offline






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      I'd say it's quite likely a root kit malware that could cause such behavior (though I'm sure other things are possible as well to cause such a memory leak)



      if rootkit, microsoft themselves suggest to use defender offline, as your existing antimalware probably won't detect it



      http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/what-is-windows-defender-offline






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        I'd say it's quite likely a root kit malware that could cause such behavior (though I'm sure other things are possible as well to cause such a memory leak)



        if rootkit, microsoft themselves suggest to use defender offline, as your existing antimalware probably won't detect it



        http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/what-is-windows-defender-offline






        share|improve this answer













        I'd say it's quite likely a root kit malware that could cause such behavior (though I'm sure other things are possible as well to cause such a memory leak)



        if rootkit, microsoft themselves suggest to use defender offline, as your existing antimalware probably won't detect it



        http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/what-is-windows-defender-offline







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