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If you understand what this modification will do to your operating system and you are ready to enforce this modification, follow the steps below:

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This might fix your disk usage problems, but it will also prevent you from using Windows Search again. Your operating system will no longer spend time automatically indexing the files that are stored on your PC. IMPORTANT: Doing this modification essentially means that you’re giving up on the search function on Windows 11. This is done via the Services screen – You’ll need to start by stopping the status of the service prior to modifying the Startup type.

If the search function is indeed to blame for this particular issue and you’re actively using it, you’re not going to like the resolution.Īs of now, the only reliable way of stopping file indexing (caused by Windows Search) from hogging all your system resources is to disable the function altogether. Apparently, the way the search function is designed to always index and keep track of new file entries will end up hogging all the system resources on low-end PCs – This affects both the CPU and traditional HDDs. Just as with Windows 10, the number one culprit that likely produces these 100% disk usage issues is the search function. Now that we went over every potential cause that has the potential of keeping your CPU and Disk at 100% usage on Windows 11, let’s go over a couple of fixes that other Windows 11 users have successfully used to alleviate the problem: Disable Windows Search To fix this, you’ll need to do a few registry modifications in order to disable native command queuing.

Native Command Queuing freezes the HDD – It’s clear now that Windows 11 is quite inefficient in allowing traditional HDD drives to leverage native command queuing and will often cause unnecessary system freezes while the disk drive is stuck at 100% usage.

This will put unnecessary pressure on your HDD which will cause unusually high usage of your disk drive.

Insufficient RAM to accommodate Sysmain – If you installed Windows 11 on a computer with low RAM capabilities, chances are Sysmain will force your OS to leverage VRAM in order to pre-load the most-used apps.

If you are willing to trade off file indexing for system stability, you can probably make the CPU and Disk usage go down considerably by disabling the Windows Search service via the Services screen.

Windows Search interference – The search function on Windows 11 that’s also tasked with indexing new files automatically is a prime suspect for this type of behavior, especially on low-end PCs.

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A clear and precise explanation from a technical BD agent is needed here as to what's cooking up during an update and why is the disk usage so high. BD is definitely upto something suspicious during an update as just getting an update definition file from a URL would certainly not take this much disk space. I am beginning to wonder if it is collecting all the information (files, folders, etc) and passing it on to the BD labs without user's consent as a user reported in another thread that during an update, he observed multiple files being opened by BD. I have also read other users facing this issue and BD has does nothing so far to fix this. I manually update once every 2 or 3 days now but still see this issue every single time during an update. Later, I turned auto pilot off and also changed the setting for 'Update Automatically' to 'Never'. Earlier, BD was on Auto Pilot and whenever I restarted my PC, this would happen.

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I observed that whenever I manually updated BD, my PC would become unresponsive and when I see the disk usage, it would show around 100%.

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I think the title says it all, I am running the Bitdefender Total Security 2017 (build: 21.0.24.54) on Windows 10 64 bit with 3GB RAM.

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