[Solved] High Disk Usage

[Ethan Bradberry]

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What exactly were you doing at the time you took the screenshot? Did you open or close any programs during the last 5 minutes from the time you took the screenshot? Did you install, edit a simple setting anything during that time? If your pc is idling just at the time and you're playing, say music only that's extremely high usage for just idling. Here's some perspective on when I have 10 tabs, music on, few communication programs running

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No, don't delete static files. That won't solve a thing unless your drive(s) are extremely near to being full (few GBs left). If something as ridiculous as this would slow down your pc, no server or 8TB drive would be in sale.

Cortana itself is known to cause significant performance issues in earlier win 10 builds and in the screenshot I can see cortana hogging 20% of your drive resources, I'd suggest disabling it and see if that solves the issues. There are numerous easy ways to disable cortana, I'd do it via a registry edit (google is full of ways to disable win 10 features, if you run in to a trouble with this, ask).

I did some googling and this could also be caused by cortana cataloguing/indexing your music files for groove music -program.

However, this could also be caused by malwarous files in your temporary folders. Especially since you stated that clearing those files temporarily sped up your system but the problem came back. Maybe a program such as your browser is infected or a site you've visited brings back the malware. I'd do a scan with both malwarebytes and their separate 'adw cleaner' program and run ccleaner on top of that.

That time was not long after loading up my PC after a retard. It was like that regardless what I was doing. I have cortana only enabled while searching (its off searching for the clipper tool).  It's now went back to being super high again. It lasted for like 1 1/2 hours before going back up to high (From Panda's fix)