High Disk Usage

[Vidojkovic]

In-Game Name: Kyle_McLeod
Date: 25/02/2017
Your Question:
Anyone know how to reduce disk usage? It's constantly high, and it didn't bother me much until youtube videos would start lagging and .mp4's from my desktop lol
I had this problem once and it got fixed when my brother replaced a 1 TB hard drive with a 500GB one. I'm in no condition to get a new hard drive currently, so any suggestions would be awesome and most appreciated.

[ay.]

2TB SDD will do, 2TB SDDx3

[Vidojkovic]

2TB SDD will do, 2TB SDDx3

Buy an HDD with a high read/write speed or an SSD

RAM might help too.

Well thanks, but I said I'm in no condition to buy a new hard drive.

[Josh Atwood]

Buy an HDD with a high read/write speed or an SSD

RAM might help too.

[Josh Atwood]

Then try using softwares that kill unnecessary background processes or manually kill them yourself via the task manager

[Gangsta_James]

Maybe one of your malware's are running on your background.. Even if you close all background apps..

I highly recommended using Malwarebytes. It works for me

:D

[KingDavid]

Try using softwares or get a high RAM or try to remove some apps using task manger.

[Wickins]

Is there a particular program in Task Manager causing high disk usage? Some viruses literally screw over your hard drive so you might want to run a scan using programs like Malwarebytes or something. Try disabling unnecessary start up programs through Task Manager > Startup at the top.

Also, send your PC specs. If you have a small amount of RAM, don't expect your hard drive to be fine as low RAM results in the usage of virtual memory which essentially partitions a part of your HDD into MUCH slower processing power and that can cause serious lag.

[Vidojkovic]

Is there a particular program in Task Manager causing high disk usage? Some viruses literally screw over your hard drive so you might want to run a scan using programs like Malwarebytes or something. Try disabling unnecessary start up programs through Task Manager > Startup at the top.

Also, send your PC specs. If you have a small amount of RAM, don't expect your hard drive to be fine as low RAM results in the usage of virtual memory which essentially partitions a part of your HDD into MUCH slower processing power and that can cause serious lag.

My disk usage is not high anymore. Though my memory usage is at 70% just because of Google Chrome and I only have 3 tabs open, one of which is this forum, youtube and facebook. Antimalware service executable used to increase my disk usage, along with 'System'. I only have chatlogarchiver enabled on startup. I tried running a scan with a pirated Malwarebytes and it didn't fix anything, made it slightly worse. This used to happen last time I installed geforce experience, which was around 5 days ago. But I uninstalled it and it stopped lagging. I usually go to bed and watch youtube videos, so my computer goes to sleep mode automatically after 40 minutes. So today when I started it up it had some problem. Black screen and some writing on it telling me to insert some hard disk or something, I don't remember. I also read that trying to update my drivers might help, but when I tried searching for some of my drivers some shady websites popped up.

PC Specs:
4gb ram
500gb hard drive
intel i3 core 3.1ghz
nvidia gtx 550 ti

[Hennessy.]

Restart you pc, i am serious

[KingDavid]

https://youtu.be/VIEwfpKQ8Yk

[KingDavid]

Just try to use task manager.

[Gangsta_James]

Use VRAM.. It makes your computer faster

[Mando]

Use VRAM.. It makes your computer faster

Do you even know what VRAM is?

[Gangsta_James]

Do you even know what VRAM is?

Virtual Ram or Virtual Memory.. Of course

:D

[Jimmy_Webzz]

Virtual Ram or Virtual Memory.. Of course

:D

You can also try to www.downloadmoreram.com

Jokes aside, OP what is your OS?,

[Wickins]

Virtual Ram or Virtual Memory.. Of course

:D

It's actually Video RAM for GPU's. You're stupid.

[Anders]

Format OS /could be a cause of shit HDD

[Viperion]

If you're thinking of some task manager.

Try Sysinternals Process Explorer.

[Vanoss]

Just format your Hard Drive..

I have a 500GB of hard drive & it lags when I open an browser or YouTube..