I am hoping this is the correct place to ask. I have been experiencing 100% Disk usage on my laptop which causes it to be very slow. Key strokes and button presses, everything becomes slow.
I have a HP 255 G8 which has 4Gb of RAM and a Ryzen 3250 processor with 1Tb of HDD. I know that Win 11 requires 4 Gb of RAM and thus I upgraded it to 8Gb. This does make a difference, but I still get the same problem.
Things I have tried
- Changing/resetting the virtual memory to the recommended amount as per many websites’ advice.
- Checked for Malware of which there are none.
- Checked for driver updates of which there are none.
- Checked for newer versions of Windows. Currently updating to Win 11 23H2.
- Disabled all startup apps.
If I leave the computer for a minute or so then the Disk usage drops down to the standard 0 or 1%. The monent I start using it again it goes back to 100%.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated and thank you in advance.
That’s the usual low end PC but we see the HDDs do that a lot. We replace the HDD with SSD and if possible kick up the amount of RAM.
HDDs are not repaired. They are replaced. And yes you can try reinstalling the OS or scanning with Malwarebytes but after years of seeing this issue, that rarely fixes the issue.