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@sonofgods said:
I also have a question. I swear i heard someone say that if your memory in use goes high it pushes it to the disk in use. i wanted to know if that true or not.

This is true. When you run out of "Phisical RAM" meaning your fast Radom access memory DDR2 or DDR3 whatever you are running, what windows will do is start writing more to "virtual memory" which is basically using your hard disk as RAM, and in most cases that wrecks performance. RAM is a pretty simple and reasonably priced upgrade. Do this for us. Run Speccy - http://www.piriform.com/speccy

From there tell us what you are running, get a screenshot or something and share with us here. If we know the motherboard and amount of RAM you are running and if you have any empty slots we might be able to suggest an easy upgrade, and knowing the spec might give us an idea of what hardware issues you are actually having.

I was Just having this problem. I had done some searching and as I was reading this thread, it stopped.

That leads me to believe it was a service such as Windows search that was indexing in the background.

Run disk cleanup

Run this command:
http://helpdeskgeek.com/windows-8/cleanup-the-winsxs-folder-in-windows-8-7/

dism /online /cleanup-image /spsuperseded /hidesp

and in the same window, run

chkdsk /f /r

Download and run ccleaner, both the file and registry cleaners.

Download windirstat , install it, right-click and run as administrator then scan your full drive (C: probably). Probably take screen shot of that using snipping tool or whatever you want and then throw it up here.