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GL502vm 100% Disk on startup

253kyleh
Level 7
As the title says I get 100% disk on startup.

I just purchased this laptop a couple days ago and have been having nothing but issues with it. This isn't the first Asus laptop I've had, I owned the G47 a few years ago and never had issues with it like I am with this. I'm more of a desktop person so I'm not too familiar with how laptops are supposed to perform normally but I don't think a $1200 laptop should be performing like this on startup.

I disabled superfetch and it worked for a couple startups but now it's back to 100% disk for about 10-15 minutes at most and superfetch is still disabled. I'm not sure what else I should be looking for, I'm still pretty new to Windows 10 and don't know what all I should disable or keep running. This is getting frustrating to deal with on a brand new computer.

Also another issues I'm running into is some games are freezing or crashing while loading at times. Its completely random so I can't figure out what the exact issue is. I usually am not running any other programs while playing games so not sure whats the cause is for the crashes.
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link626
Level 7
your laptop is new.

Windows is probably fetching updates. This is one of the differences between win 10 and 7.

Just to test, You can go to Services, and disable Windows Update service.
Don't disable superfetch.

Also, each drive partition has an indexer you can turn off.

I bet if you boot up in safe mode, you won't have the disk thrashing.
So the problem is background services, not the laptop itself.

In Task Manager, you can see which app is hogging the disk usage.