Windows 8.1/8/10/fuck knows. DISK USAGE

>>298393
Leave it on a couple of hours. There's all kinds of search-indexing, update-checking, .NET manifest-building, and miscellaneous shit Vista-and-later needs to do, and if the computer is never on, none of it ever gets finished, so it just starts again every time you turn the computer on.

Failing that, there's the startup tab of task manager, which has a "startup impact" column (it's usually Dropbox's fault), and there's also Performance Monitor if you're a bit more technically-inclined.

>>298396
Sorry I should have said the laptops aren't like new, I think I have managed to fix the current one I am using my updating the page size, but when I tried this for hers it didn't work. Its frustrating me that it can't seem to fix it.

search indexer and/or windows update are probably the culprits
stop each of those services
>net stop wsearch
>net stop wuauserv
respectively, and see how disk utilization changes. if that bother you that much (at least the search indexer should not impact performance since it should only "do-its-thing" once the machine is idle for a while) you can disable them on
>services.msc
(windows + r)

gl

>>298393
i usually find letting a comp get behind on updates causes these sort of usages

>>298867
forgot to include, those net stop commands probably need to be run on an admin console, easiest way is by
>pressing windows + x
>press a