Why is my Laptops Disk memory always full?

Edwards8925

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Currently, my laptop is being very slow. It is a HP that I have had for about 6 months that has an i7 H processor however it is taking a while on boot up and a while to launch simple applications such as Microsoft Word and Powerpoint etc... I have tried to solve this by getting rid of a few applications but when i went on task manager to see if i could see the problem there, it says that Disk is almost always running at 100% or close to it. Can you please explain what this means and if it could be the reason for my laptop being slow.
Thanks
 

johnb35

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What is the exact model of your laptop? We need specific specs of it. It could also be filled with malware, have you ran malwarebytes?
 

johnb35

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Base cpu speed is only 1.8 ghz though it is a quad core. When you open task manager click on the disk usage column so it sorts it by most usage first then you'll know what process is using it all. I would definitely scan for malware though.
 

Edwards8925

New Member
Base cpu speed is only 1.8 ghz though it is a quad core. When you open task manager click on the disk usage column so it sorts it by most usage first then you'll know what process is using it all. I would definitely scan for malware though.
Is there any way I can up the performance of my CPU? And what program would I use to check for malware? Thanks
 

GREENNYC

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Currently, my laptop is being very slow. It is a HP that I have had for about 6 months that has an i7 H processor however it is taking a while on boot up and a while to launch simple applications such as Microsoft Word and Powerpoint etc... I have tried to solve this by getting rid of a few applications but when i went on task manager to see if i could see the problem there, it says that Disk is almost always running at 100% or close to it. Can you please explain what this means and if it could be the reason for my laptop being slow.
Thanks

It could be superfetch. I once had a similar problem when dealing with a slow 5400 rpm hard drive. Disabled superfetch and it rarely happened again.
 
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