Need help.
Hello, I have been having a disk 100% problem. I have tried everything online and some of what the guild on world of Warcraft have have told me. im not computer smarts. every time it gets to 100% i see that there a lot of random apps i don't use up with pagefile.sys. ill try even at this point to fix it.
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Hi,
I am not sure I understand what you are asking. Are you saying that the disk is 100% full?
Are you trying to say that when you try to put WOW on the computer it complains that disk is full?
i think if you proof read your post, and edit it, we will be more able to help you. ive read it several times over and im not sure what you are asking/describing
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.
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.
And to re-iterate what others have said: describing your problem accurately and with good sentence structure will lead to faster solutions. E.g. is your disk 100% full or 100% in use? They are very different things.
Tushon you know I'm bad about that >{. Only you can make since of my bad grammar. But it's 100% in use.
No i already have wow on my pc. Its when i log on to my pc. the disk in use stays at 100%.> @BobbyDigi said:
I have have tried that. It used for like 3 mins and went right back up.
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.
If a computer tries to run a lot of programs, or high memory use ones, it first uses non-disk memory(RAM). If it runs low on non-disk memory it does what Cliff said.
Utilizing half of 8GB of DDR3 is a little unusual unless you have something intensive already running in the background. 8GB is great for most users. What are you running when you boot up? When you game, what is going on in the background? Do you know? There are great ways to clean up your boot so you are maybe only running about 1.5 GB or so at startup and when you are running a game you might get up to 4GB then leaving you plenty of RAM overhead to keep you from getting into your virtual memory file too much.
Also, do us a favor and run a Trial of Norton Internet Security and get and run a Trial of Hitman Pro. Some processes that are malware can tie up/make busy a system like crazy.
Looking there your hard disk is obviously over utilized as well. Any spindle drive that full is going to perform poorly. Adding a drive for storage is easy. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236339 - $55 you triple your total storage. You might want to start installing games on the new drive and maybe even move your user folder. You could clone the old drive even, it is fairly simple to do. If you were to clone the drive, I'd suggest a little more storage than the 1TB for you since you will already be past half utilization in that case. Maybe consider a 2TB drive.
In fact if you think about cloning, I'd say get this - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822178380&ignorebbr=1&cm_re=ppssHybridHDD--22-178-380--Product - For $95 you have a real performance disk. Personally I have a pair of SSD's and an old school spindle drive for backups but I'm kinda nuts and don't mind spending on PC parts for max performance. If you can swing $95 for an upgrade though, that Seagate drive will solve the heck out of your storage issue. Your spindle drive is way over utilized, so getting a bigger disk to work with along with the SSD cache will be a serious boost for you.
I think you missed a few spots there, the top 3 file extensions and .mp4 further down.
Just delete about 10gb worth of videos out of your Faps directory that you don't need and you will stop getting these warnings. Sorry, Fraps directory. Typo.
First: for future screenshots, use snipping tool. It is already built-in to your machine and works better than taking actual pictures of your screen, as you appear to be doing. Use window or rectangular (preferably window since it should grab the whole thing, where you've excluded some stuff.
Confirm what @Cliff_Forster above is accurate. High RAM usage leads to "virtual" memory usage, which is the pagefile.
Totally disagree here. I don't know what you're basing that on, because he didn't post anything about the actual disk size. The reported numbers in WinDirStat is a report of used disk space and doesn't tell you the total anywhere on that screen (it does on the opening screen where you select a disk if you have multiple). @sonofgods can confirm that his disk is full or not by looking at the My Computer screen, or running
When you run that, make sure you click Y to schedule it, then allow a reboot when you are ready to walk away from the computer for a while. It can take a long time if the disk is large, full, and/or has issues (up to several hours).
Please don't. NIS is notoriously hard to remove. Use Malwarebytes instead, and if you want to go down the "maybe I have a virus route", try my blog on this very site.
Another suggestion, though I doubt it is related: disable hibernation (in a command window: "powercfg -h off" ) and restart.
I agree that Norton is hard to remove. I still havent completely gotten rid of it on my laptop after 3 years.
https://support.norton.com/sp/en/us/home/current/solutions/kb20080710133834EN_EndUserProfile_en_us
thanks Tushon, but ive already run that several times, and norton disappears for a few weeks, and then when i finally believe it is gone, i get that stupid popup "there once was a time when you could...safely...that was when you had norton" or whatever. ive just had to learn to accept it as a permanent fixture of my stupid laptop. fortunately i dont use my laptop for much these days.
Weird! That sounds debuggable, but might take a bit of work.
oh man, ive spent more hours than i care to say on the whole issue. everything short of a nuke and pave
I use Malwarebytes. it has not let me down at all. and i have done everything as said to do. And as of right now it has said low. never gone above 10%
DX I Didnt know that was a realy thing DX.
@primesuspect All my porn is on old phones i dont really use anymore. I believe those are when i use my Streaming app. It streams and records. i deleted it and tried changing setting but it always does it XD.
Thank you all for helping me out the best you can. im not easy to work with. even over a pc where i have to spell and get my point across understandable and right. XD school has done nothing for me.
I was gonna say...thats a lot of space wasted since you probably dont watch more than a couple minutes of each video.
They are just so old off brand creepy phones. That's I use to root, watch porn, mess around with.
Hey update guys. It seem to only go up to 100% when i have world of warcraft open.