Fixing 100% disk usage in Windows 10 with Chrome and Skype running

Hi, 

It seemed to have worked initially, but again the disk activity is 100%. 

The start up time also is way slow. Win 8.1 was very fast. 

Is there any other way?

I am using a Dell i7347-10051sLV laptop with 8GB RAM. 

Thanks in advance!

I dont have Skype or Chrome and I'm getting 100% Disk Usage half the time it's AVG resident shield and the other half its firefox -_-

Wow. It worked. Thank you sooooooo much for this solution. You just saved my thousands of hours.

I was looking for a solution from past couple of weeks but could't find anything. I thought it was a drawback of Win 10 or maybe something is wrong with my HDD.

I have to transfer around 15 - 20 GBs of data everyday and it takes several hours to finish it. Now, I can finish it within minutes.

Thank you for this solution.

How to fix 100% disk usage in Windows 10

This is caused by a common combination of Skype as well Google Chrome. Similar issue with other programs could also cause 100% disk usage. To fix this do the following:

Google Chrome:

In Google Chrome, go to Settings > Show Advanced Settings ... > Privacy > Prefetch resources to load pages more quickly

and untick it. See Figure-1 below:

Figure-1

Skype:

Make sure you have exited Skype and it is not running in the taskbar (if it is running in the taskbar then quit it).

Open Windows Explorer and open the following folder:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Skype\Phone"

Now right click "Skype.exe" file and then click "Properties" and open the "Security" tab.

Click the "Edit" button and then highlight "ALL APPLICATION PACKAGES" and place a tick in the "Write" box.

Click "Apply" and then "OK" and then "OK" again. See Figures-2 to Figure-6 below:

This is it, now run Skype and check the Disk Usage in Task Manager and it will no longer show you 100% disk usage anymore:-

I hope this helps people. I spent a long time in finding a solution to this problem.

Your solution doesn't work for me still the best solution is to kill Background Intelligent Transfer Service but it still starts from nothing and goes back to 100%

Thanks for your feedback ! Microsoft?

I have the exact same problem and feelings as Emily. Haven't been able to do any work for the last two days. My suspects are also One drive and service host.