WinOS loads > you open and leave open Task Manager (and set it to default to the Performance tab)

Yup, that works. Oh and configure MSI Afterburner to display CPU and GPU temp (in *C not *F) as Tray Icons so you can ALWAYS see your temps quickly no matter what you might be doing; no OSD required.

If your disk usage is 100%, you have terrible drives. Outside of maybe doing a game verify for a very large game, such as Red Dead 2 for example. Make use of the Exclusion option in your anti-virus and add folders such as Steam to it (or where a game library is located) so that it doesn't waste CPU/RAM/Disk usage by constantly real-time scanning those areas, which is actually rather pointless to have it do.

Nothing WinOS does normally would ever do this kind of extreme disk usage, so this says to me you have a very terrible PC, you have infections or just way too much BS going on that shouldn't be and YOU should always be looking to have total control over all of that yourself.

Lazy users are always so obvious, they find their PC doing stuff they weren't aware of, as if they are some kind of detective who had a "ligh-bulb" go off. No... micro-manage every Device you use and this won't happen to you, period.

It is not about a little guide, but Windows barebones when by M$?

100% Disk usage sounds like the whole system is running from a single HDD

Let me also be honest about something else. If you clean install Win10/11 you will need to spend time changing and tweaking OS settings. The defaults are all terrible and MS has many things on by default MOST users (especially gamers) do not need turned on.

Anyone who has any common sense, has moved to Linux for much of this very reason. Some are probably also perhaps scared about Win11 and do not want more tracking, recording or AI crap in their OS, or added onto it later, etc.

You missed the item where you delete Windows and Install Linux Mint and free up processing power to game that is normally used for AI, antivirus, and bloatware.
My 14900k never sees 70C gaming. Under Windows...lol

Also another thing you missed with the 100% drive, or if one particular drive is at 100% for no reason then the fault also comes down to windows superfetch/super search (they change the name so many times already) just by disabling that also helps. With fresh installation of windows, i usually disable that (since windows 7 the superfetch search have a bug which microsoft still haven't fixed, where it goes into a loop for searching/indexing)

Originally posted by JacquesPatat:

Also another thing you missed with the 100% drive, or if one particular drive is at 100% for no reason then the fault also comes down to windows superfetch/super search (they change the name so many times already) just by disabling that also helps. With fresh installation of windows, i usually disable that (since windows 7 the superfetch search have a bug which microsoft still haven't fixed, where it goes into a loop for searching/indexing)

OS installed to SSD = superfetch is disabled.

Prefetch disable is done via Registry
Windows Search you can't disable, you simply configure it to never build a cache database; then go to each Drive Properties and disable Indexing.

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

Originally posted by JacquesPatat:

Also another thing you missed with the 100% drive, or if one particular drive is at 100% for no reason then the fault also comes down to windows superfetch/super search (they change the name so many times already) just by disabling that also helps. With fresh installation of windows, i usually disable that (since windows 7 the superfetch search have a bug which microsoft still haven't fixed, where it goes into a loop for searching/indexing)

OS installed to SSD = superfetch is disabled.

Prefetch disable is done via Registry
Windows Search you can't disable, you simply configure it to never build a cache database; then go to each Drive Properties and disable Indexing.

its still enabled. i install my system onto SSD and everytime i have to disable it

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

WinOS loads > you open and leave open Task Manager (and set it to default to the Performance tab)

Yup, that works. Oh and configure MSI Afterburner to display CPU and GPU temp (in *C not *F) as Tray Icons so you can ALWAYS see your temps quickly no matter what you might be doing; no OSD required.

If your disk usage is 100%, you have terrible drives. Outside of maybe doing a game verify for a very large game, such as Red Dead 2 for example. Make use of the Exclusion option in your anti-virus and add folders such as Steam to it (or where a game library is located) so that it doesn't waste CPU/RAM/Disk usage by constantly real-time scanning those areas, which is actually rather pointless to have it do.

Nothing WinOS does normally would ever do this kind of extreme disk usage, so this says to me you have a very terrible PC, you have infections or just way too much BS going on that shouldn't be and YOU should always be looking to have total control over all of that yourself.

Lazy users are always so obvious, they find their PC doing stuff they weren't aware of, as if they are some kind of detective who had a "ligh-bulb" go off. No... micro-manage every Device you use and this won't happen to you, period.

What are you waffling about bro.
Ever since i did this my PC disk usage has been reduced to 1-30%.

Windows update and scans are the occasional thing that slows laptops.
I get that you wanna be some gun-ho individual.

But all you said was unnecessary...💀

Originally posted by JacquesPatat:

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

OS installed to SSD = superfetch is disabled.

Prefetch disable is done via Registry
Windows Search you can't disable, you simply configure it to never build a cache database; then go to each Drive Properties and disable Indexing.

its still enabled. i install my system onto SSD and everytime i have to disable it

It's enabled maybe if you have a HDD. It has zero effects on SSDs

What you want to disable is Indexing, Windows Search caching and Prefetch.

Please educate yourselves

sysmain also has other additional functions like memory (RAM, and PageFile?) compression and other minor settings.

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

Originally posted by JacquesPatat:

its still enabled. i install my system onto SSD and everytime i have to disable it

It's enabled maybe if you have a HDD. It has zero effects on SSDs

What you want to disable is Indexing, Windows Search caching and Prefetch.

Please educate yourselves

ok so according to you, a system with only have SSD it should be disabled, right? Now according to your statement, i must "Educate myself" then why then, seeing as my system have two SSD drives and i literally reinstalled windows on Monday and i have to disable it and i didn't install any HD's until today. please can you explain to me that then, as it doesn't make sense to me then.

Personally with the indexing on SSD what i noticed before seeing as it happened to me already , performance wise i didn't notice much lag, but with Windows task manager it was showing 100%, and before you say it's something else, when i disabled windows indexing, the drive went from 100% down to 0% almost immediately. Maybe i'm missing something but that is just a simple observation from my point of view.

Ok but again, Superfetch and Prefetch are not the same thing and even if Superfetch is enabled it doesn't hurt or hinder SSDs since it's not used on those.

Prefetch is what will tax your ssd for no reason or benefit and needs to be disabled via Registry

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

Let me also be honest about something else. If you clean install Win10/11 you will need to spend time changing and tweaking OS settings. The defaults are all terrible and MS has many things on by default MOST users (especially gamers) do not need turned on.

Anyone who has any common sense, has moved to Linux for much of this very reason. Some are probably also perhaps scared about Win11 and do not want more tracking, recording or AI crap in their OS, or added onto it later, etc.

I’m lazy and don’t fix anything that isn’t broke. My games run fine and it seems unnecessary to shut things off. My PC was ready to game after I installed Win10 and I only installed the gpu drivers and a few days later the mobo drivers. Installing any drivers seemed optional. How lazy can you be. Lol.

So when you say a person will need to change and tweak settings after installing windows I’ll totally disagree. It’s more like an option. If someone shuts too many things off things might stop working and throw up errors and then peeps will be back undoing the tweaks they made or re installing windows.

Originally posted by AUTTENBURGH:

For anyone having issues with a sudden 100% disk usage, make sure to always check to see if windows is downloading an update before playing a game, also, another beneficial thing to do is to also disable tips in the notification settings, disabling this alone will reduce your disk usage by a lot, should you get any sudden disk usage and it was not the windows update, i got so used to troubleshooting myself that i am now familiar with what exactly to do whenever issues come up, hope this helps those who are worried about the occasional sudden 100% disk usage, windows like to download and install updates in secret, so make sure to always keep that in check whenever you see any slowdown, keep moving forward! ✨ :cozyjunimogreen:

A much easier thing is to download Shutup10 (Free app) and completely hard disable windows updates manually so that it won't run at random when ever you don't want it to and to prevent sudden 100% drive usage without warning. But not forever: Once a month re-enable updates, re-install all updates (WHEN YOU WANT TO NOT WHEN MICROSOFT WANTS TO RUN IT) then re-disable updates again once updating is done.

You can have full manual control over when updates runs. You just have to do it.

You have no reason to disable Windows Updates when you can Pause it for 1 month at a time.

What you want to disable for starters is how Defender scans your game client and games folders all the time. Use Exclusions.

All the keyboard typing recording settings.

Any optional data collection opt ins.

Windows Updates ability to handle drivers.