Fix annoying Windows 10 Hangs & 100% disk usage

[Going Bald]

I do like the scaling down of the Start (metro) Menu in 10. Makes it more desktop friendly.

Back on topic. Have you tried disabling Superfetch / Prefetch per the directions in post #1 ?
Noticed any less hang time or disk usage ? It should be done automatically for SSDs, which
Win 10 does detect. Unfortunately we still have to do this manually for now.

On a clean install of Win10, using the Microsoft USB media creator to make the installer and installing UEFI on the m.2 Samsung drive in my X99M Killer, Superfetch / Prefetch were already disabled. The installer not only disabled these two it also disabled automatic disk cleanup and disk defrag apps and enabled TRIM.

 

[trs96]

On a clean install of Win10, using the Microsoft USB media creator to make the installer and installing UEFI on the m.2 Samsung drive in my X99M Killer, Superfetch / Prefetch were already disabled. The installer not only disabled these two it also disabled automatic disk cleanup and disk defrag apps and enabled TRIM.

That's good to know. I was using a Win 10 DVD and installing legacy on an older computer without UEFI.

 

[Going Bald]

That's good to know. I was using a Win 10 DVD and installing legacy on an older computer without UEFI.

I think if the installer recognizes you are installing on a SSD it will do it automatically, but on a new clean install you should check all settings anyway.

 

[Jasonnz2018]

On most computers that have been upgraded to Windows 10 I see that disk usage is often hovering around 90-100 %. So I looked for a solution online and found that disabling Superfetch and Prefetch (if you have 10 on an SSD) make a difference in how smoothly and quickly your Win 10 system runs. If you have a slow 5400 RPM HDD it's best to leave Superfetch and Prefetch turned on. Doing this made my Win10 install run much more smoothly. Give it a try. You can also do this on Windows 7 and 8.1 installs to an SSD. Windows is supposed to do this automatically but I always check it anyway. These two features are not needed with fast Sata 3 solid state drives.

1. Go to Services.msc and set Superfetch to disabled.

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2. Edit the registry. Disable Prefetch

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are you referring to the hang, that the mouse still can move? but the system is un-usable? will your solution fix that?