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Ive started noticing this only over the last month, but it might have been happening before.

I have a few months old (~8) gaming laptop running Windows 8.1, and I do not use it often, few times a week perhaps. I have noticed that when I resume it from standby (or hibernate mostly) for the first few minutes the Disk utilization on the task manager saturates at 100%. In the "Resource manager" this appears to be called "Highest active time"

I assumed, initially this is because of skype, I use skype chat for work often, so when I boot this, possibly it needs to download and save all that, etc. Initially Skype was high in the Resource managers list so I closed that and now only open as needed. This has not fixed it however. I think now it might be due to my 2 gmail tabs that stay open. However the top of the list for most of the time is the very descriptive "System" so not sure what to do there.

I think this should not last this long, so I am worried if this is a problem I should be worried about. The issue fixes itself few minutes after boot, so Ive just let it be.. but I was wondering if there is a fix.

Karthik T
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Update via windows store to windows 8.1 (for those reading this who haven't already).

And run windows update several times after each restart to obtain all the windows bug fixes. 3 times normally

Upon doing that you should be good. I'm sure you will have a 90% success rate with the above.

Also people have been reporting that live tiles (some times separate developers from Microsoft) are bugged. Thus disable live tiles for each tile app. You could update them in the windows store as well, might let you keep them enabled without problems.

Another common factor that affects disk usage like this is:

  1. anti virus programs (go into setting and change idle scan)
  2. windows search service (disable upon startup via 1.Run 2.type msconfig, 3.uncheck it in services tab)

Source: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/performance/100-disk-usage-ever-since-win-81-preview-update/88ce0370-8f47-4186-b902-0f6732cbbcbc

PathToLife
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