{"id":548,"date":"2011-05-23T06:46:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T13:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kb.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb-articles\/constant-high-cpu-usage-or-disk-activity-in-windows\/"},"modified":"2021-09-07T15:05:22","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T22:05:22","slug":"constant-high-cpu-usage-or-disk-activity-in-windows","status":"publish","type":"lsvr_kba","link":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/kb-articles\/constant-high-cpu-usage-or-disk-activity-in-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"Constant High CPU Usage or Disk Activity in Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><font color=\"#ff5500\">Problem:<\/font><\/strong> <\/p>\r\n  <p>While in Windows, CPU usage and\/or disk access is constantly higher than it should be. For example, the CPU may run around 50% and the drive around 45% indefinitely, even when the computer is idle. Depending on the system configuration, the problem may only appear under certain circumstances (e.g. when a partition is hidden).<\/p>\r\n  <p><strong><font color=\"#ff5500\">Cause:<\/font><\/strong> <\/p>\r\n  <p>This can be caused by the Acronis <em>snapman<\/em> driver, which is&nbsp;installed with True Image and Disk Director, as well as the free Western Digital and Seagate (DiscWizard)&nbsp;versions of True Image.<\/p>\r\n  <p><strong><font color=\"#ff5500\">Solution:<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\r\n  <p>If the Acronis software is no longer needed or being used, the best option is to uninstall it. Otherwise,&nbsp;check for an updated version of the program being used and try it. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Problem: While in Windows, CPU usage and\/or disk access is constantly higher than it should be. For example, the CPU may run around 50% and the drive around 45% indefinitely, even when the computer is idle. Depending on the system configuration, the problem may only appear under certain circumstances (e.g. when a partition is hidden). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"lsvr_kba_cat":[1790],"lsvr_kba_tag":[2121],"class_list":["post-548","lsvr_kba","type-lsvr_kba","status-publish","hentry","lsvr_kba_cat-problem-solving-image-for-windows","lsvr_kba_tag-image-for-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/lsvr_kba"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6371,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/548\/revisions\/6371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_cat?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_tag?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}