so it is a common problem...you-me not alone.

I got this issue in the last months, and apparentelly is fixed on my Thinkpad X240. Whatever I did - and I did ALL these instructions - worked for like 1 or 2 days and the 100% disk usage was back. Several times my X240 was stucked, and I needed to do a hard reset.

What REALLY change this situation of upgrade the Windows 10 to the LASTEST version: the Windows 10 Fall Creators Edition is absolutelly the best W10 version that I ever got it.
Disk usage now is almost of the time on 0% to less than 10% - even when I open Chrome or Word, it goes to near 100% but in 2 or 3 seconds, falls back. And I even using the original HD (Toshiba 7200 rpm), it´s not a SSD yet.

I strongly reccomend the upgrade, because that was the only thing that really fixed the 100% disk usage issue, at least for me.
But I reconfigured the new version with all these steps again, just for garantee that I am using a clean and stable OS. These hints here are absolutelly fantastic for a W10 user.

The link that I used to download the W10 Fall Creators Edition was:

https://www.microsoft.com/e...

Hope this can help other people like me that wa already getting nervous about using the laptop with this issue.

Best,
AM

Thinkpad X240 does NOT support Win10. this is your problem. install Windows 7 (and drivers) and watch it speed up...

Says who?

thank you bro.

it work with me

IF NOTHING ELSE WORKS: Go to power options, change to high performance and make sure plan settings are on default!! Worked straight away!!

YAS. And for anyone else who needs to know how/where you can tweak the Power Settings like that, here ya go. https://uploads.disquscdn.c...

High performance is not available now, try to create new plan and select High performance
Goto > Control Panel\Hardware and Sound\Power Options\Create a Power Plan
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select High performance
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Brilliant. Dropped my hard drive usage from 100 to 0 percent immediately.
So simple!

Genius! Thank you so much!

Yep same here. Instantly

did not work for me..nor the other 6 mentioned in page.. any more suggestions ? fed up with this...

same here :( any luck?

Mine wasn't solved until I changed my hard drive from HDD to an SSD

to anyone that this didn't work what I did as a final shot was just put what I wanted to keep on a storage device and ran a full wipe on everything and it seems to have fixed it

this was the fix! I did many of the free options first and even sprung for the device driver pro updates since they really needed done. But this power adjustment was absolutely the fix! Even the editing ot make a high performance category. (I adjusted the recommended already)

My settings won't stay at "High Performance" and are back to "Active" when I reopen Advanced Settings. Is this normal? Shouldn't it show "High Performance" when I reopen the settings?

you gotta make a 'create a new plan' and select the high performance as the basis for it ....

Creating a new plan was the key. Thanks for your help.

Doesn't work, there are no high performance options even if I make a new power plan. The default is high performance (active)...

On my laptop, I must set my Power Settings through Intel Graphics Settings https://uploads.disquscdn.c...

It worked for me, too. Man I've tried all the possible tries and finally this worked. Thank you for sharing this.

thank you, this is working on my notebook. it might've been the psu or the adaptor that have some problems.

Not all heroes wear capes...

omg...everybody says that

Did this after trying EVERYTHING else. So far it seems to have worked. Fingers crossed it stays that way. You have saved my sanity!!

Toby, great work. I will be recommending you for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Yes I agree Dav mh you're right

And the hero bolts forward and saves the day!

That works for me for one second then it goes up to 100% right away. How to handle this buddy? Need your help!

Seems to work but then goes back to 100% then settles down a bit and back to 100% that freezes my system.
Reboot andTRask Manager Disk starts at 100% then settles down for a while then back to 100%. I tried all these solutions but..... Nada

If you are having the disk usage problem, it’s most likely a problem with the hard drive. SSDs are fast and unless you have some program that is accessing the disk all the time, it really should never be at 100% for more than a few seconds.

I would recommend to replace the hard drive and upgrade it to SSD. Once you have changed the hard drive to SSD check the disk usage and let us know.

Replace hard drive with SSD drive and you won't have any of these problem. It;s the Hard Drive which causes 100% uses.

omg copy and paste. Too bad this isnt true (at least 100% true anywys)

It worked for me... my laptop works great now. SSD definitely better normal drives.

yeah, it worked for /you/. You're making it out that it working for you = it working for everyone.
Although SSD are better than hard drives, they arnt 100% immune to Microsofts bs. They will have faults and "switching to SSD" isnt going to solve everyone's problem (like you're making it out to be)

just like options of this website won't work for anyone
so what you said not make absolutely any sense

Didn't work. Windows 10 has made my laptop useless. Going back to Linux Ubuntu.

It is not a Windows or Apps like Skype, Chrome, Youtube ... issue. It is the HDD circuit timing issue that it lost timing and never recovered, throwing the tasks that was accessing the HDD off track and the system hung there. All different PC, HDD brands new or old have this issue, an inherent problem with the i5, i7 CPUs. All the solutions here are to limit the access to HDD = lower the system performance then hopefully it is ok. Intel uses Turboboost which is internal over-clocking that makes the benchmarks look good but also contributes to this issue.

So 2 factors that help with this is by lowering the performance of the system by 1. Slow down the system clocking by turning off TurboBoost in CMOS. 2. Turn off performance features or Apps like Superfetch, Windows Search, etc which always run in the backround.

Replace hard drive with SSD drive and you won't have any of these problem.
trust me it's not windows 10 which causes the problem... it's the hard drive. I replaced my laptop's hard drive and now laptop works like new one.

Nope, we have SSDs on all our machines and some of them have this problem to the extreme!

In that case, I would say you probably want to follow all the steps in this article. Or try another SSD drives. SSD drives do go bad.

Reformatting and re-installing windows has removed the problem, at least for now. A "secure erase" seems to be a more permanent fix but apparently complicated to achieve.

That's bad advise Mr Helper. The issue is just less obvious but is still present, plus it'll drain your SSD's life MUCH faster as Windows thrashes it

DUDE THANK YOU!!! Microsoft should pay you for this one!!

lmao no its cause u bought one with a HDD instead of an SSD

It works for me but after I sleep my computer and open it up again it goes to 100% again. Anyone has the same problem? I have used my asus zenbook pro ux501 for 1 and half year only

Replace hard drive with SSD drive and you won't have any of these problem.

I have the same problem for years. Noticed after my desktop was in storage for a few months and I did the updates from Win 10, Then it started and wont stop. I've tried all of these above and it still wont stop for about 45 to 60mins. I bought a new HP laptop last year and it never did it, now it does it too. I think its Windows 10's buggy software. Oh and when this started on my tower, it would also crash or freeze when searching for files in file explorer, then crash.