Why does this happen? I'm not asking how to fix it, I just want to have a discussion about it and why it happens. It seemingly does it whenever it feels like it with little space actually used
Microsoft is compressing screenshots of your desktop and sending them back home
And no, it's not a joke
Slow drive, try an SSD
The more simultaneous write attempts are made from an HDD, the more the needle has to jump (you hear a rattering) and the slower the overall write speed gets because of needle travel time
It's processes that are starting up btw
>>62268558
Bootup processes, delayed start processes, multiple simultaneous read/writes, superfetch which you should turn off, or antivirus scans.
As >>62268599 said, SSD makes these mostly go away. Otherwise, install W7 which has less shit like the Microsoft Store and other app garbage running in the background, or just install Linux.
>>62268558
Superfetch might be the issue. You can read about it here: https://superuser.com/questions/645650/what-is-superfetch-and-its-relation-to-svchost-exe-localsystemnetworkrestricte
To disable it, do the following:
Open up the Run prompt and enter Services.msc.
Find Superfetch in the list, right click it and stop the service.
Double-click on it and set its start up type to Disabled.
>>62268558
Here's how to find which process is using the most resources:
1. Open the Resource Monitor. Either in the task manager, or by hitting the start button and typing its name.
2. Go to the disk section.
3. Sort by total bytes.
Now look at the top process and you can even see the files its writing. Neat huh? It's why I love windows over Linux.
>>62268599 here
to reduce needle travel time, you should defrag (although win10 tends to do that automatically)
you can still set a more aggressive defrag schedule
>>62268558
Disable the Diagtrack service and wait a minute or two
Should fix it
>>62268599
>Slow drive, try an SSD
The issue is software. Buying better hardware to mitigate that is a nigger solution.
it happens because you're using malware OS
It's svchost.exe. In theory it's a good solution: take unused parts of the RAM, compress them and write them to disk; then free that RAM.
In practice it's retarded because:
>not every user has an SSD
>thrashing the user's SSD/HDD for a 1 % increase in performance it's stupid in the long run since the drive wear outweighs the performance gains
>not every user has a good enough CPU to compress/decompress chunks of RAM while also keeping up with it's other tasks. Especially not laptop/phone users
>more battery usage
Svchost is literally a Swap file with higher CPU usage. And everyone from GNU to Mac OS and Android hates Swap because it's too slow in the real world.
>>62271783
>svchost.exe is literally a swap file
And here I thought it was a system service host process, hence the name.
>>62272738
It is. I don't know what service he's referring to.
>>62269015
Or just have him not be a pussy faggot and have him build an Arch from scratch.
Oh yeah...
>>62274079
>that name
I'm going to hazard a guess that you're a fucking retard