100% disk utilization in Windows system can be fixed with following easy steps.
- Stop Sysmain Services – Two ways you can stop this services. First open Services.msc as administrator user as well as stop and disable the Sysmain service as shown in picture below. Follow the steps given in below picture. 1> Select the service with single click. 2> Click Stop. 3> In drop down, select startup type- Disabled. 4> Apply. 5>OK.
Other way to stop Sysmain is using windows powershell. Open powershell window as administrator user then run the command- net.exe stop sysmain as shown in snippet below.
- Disable Diagnostic Tracking Service– Open windows command prompt as administrator then type in- sc config “DiagTrack” start=disabled.
- Terminate defrag– Open Task scheduler as administrator then disable it from right side panel.
- Stop BITS Service– Open windows services by typing services.msc in run or cortana search as administrator Stop then disable the service as shown in picture below.
- Disable Prefetcher using Windows Registry Editor– Open Registry editor as administrator show in figure below.
Go to path shown in snippet below then set the value data as 0 under EnablePrefetcher in PrefetchParameters.
Next you can set clear page file at shutdown by making following changes in registry.
NOTE: Changes made inside registry needs your computer to restart.