My first post here; sorry if in wrong place. Also, if this has been asked and answered in the past, I did not find anything in doing a search; I apologize in advance.
My Win10 system shows that I have my system disk (C:), a normal hdd, 100% busy with average response times often over 1,000 to 5,000 ms, according to Task Manager->Performance tab. Resource Monitor shows that PID 4, the OS, has lots (~25) of files open, like various log files from the names, and busily writing and reading. No other foreground processes open. I stopped several of the services like the background file indexing, but no help. I found some articles on-line that referred to disks using “MSI” mode and how to disable that in the registry. That helped a little. Oh, this is a 6 core Intel i7-8700 CPU that is less than 20% utilized during the high disk utilization. Also, I have 64Gb of RAM that is often less than 10Gb used since the system is virtually non-usable when the response times are so bad. Because of the high memory, I am not using a pagefile at this point. Resource Monitor shows ~70,000 B/sec being read and written by PID 4 (“System” process) often. What is keeping the disk so busy? Again, it makes what should be a powerful system slow as cold molasses. Where else can I look or do? Thank you.
