New Aspire F 15 high disk usage

PolishCanadian

Hey guys,

 

This is the second new Aspire F 15 laptop I've picked up. I replaced my previous one with a new one because of a high disk usage error. I couldn't fix it despite spending countless hours trying every fix I could find online.

 

So I'm quite frustrated now, after picking up a new model and seeing the same problem. The disk usage typically hovers around 95% in task manager when nothing is running, and when I open any program it shoots to 99% - 100%. Sometimes it goes below 90%, but it's always shortlived.

 

The services in task manager that usually hog all the disk usage are:

Service Host: Local System
wsappx

McAfee Scanner service

 

I don't think this should be happening with a brand new laptop, especially with the second model. Can someone please explain what might be causing this or how to change it? Or if I should just return it and get a different laptop. The F 15 has everything I need for my price range, and I'd rather not have to find another laptop. Again, I've tried every solution online that I could find, and it nothing helped.

 

Any insight would be much appreciated.

brummyfan2

Hi,

Try uninstalling or disabling the trial version of McAffe, you will be protected immediately by Windows Defender, if you want a third party AV program, you can find many alternatives online.

IronFly

use the McAfee official uninstall to be sure it will completly uninstall:

http://us.mcafee.com/apps/supporttools/mcpr/mcpr.asp

Menes

Disable your windows update. I have the same problem. Now my disk only reach 100% at startup and it's normal then after 1 min it decreases to 1-3% disk usage ????

PolishCanadian

Thanks, that helped a lot! I already uninstalled it with out the uninstaller, but using this did a lot.

PolishCanadian

I already did this, but thanks. Completely uninstalling McAfee seemed to help more.