Reduce Activity of Hard drive your pc or laptop

Speed up your pc with reduce hard drive usage.
Time to time slowing your pc when you using windows 7 ,8 ,8,1 ,or 10.There may be  several reasons cause for slow down the pc or laptop.
1, CPU Usage
2. RAM Usage
3. Storage usage

You can find what happening ,Which part accessing 100% by view Task Manager.

Press [Ctrl]+[Alt]+[Del] to bring up the Windows Security screen, which provides users with five options including Windows Task Manager. 

Just click Start Task Manager. Right-click the task bar and you'll see the context menu. Then, just choose the Start Task Manager command.

 Before checking viruses or after checking drive partition errors by chkdsk utility. There are 3 methods to reduce the hard drive usage.

1. Disable the Windows 10, 8, or 7 Superfetch


Enable or disable the Windows 10, 8, or 7 Superfetch (otherwise known as Prefetch) feature. Superfetch caches data so that it can be immediately available to your application. Sometimes this can affect the performance of certain applications. It tends to not work well with gaming, but can improve performance with business apps.
To modify whether Superfetch is enabled or disabled, you can perform the following steps.

Disable from Services

1. Hold the Windows Key, while pressing “R” to bring up the Run dialog box.
2. Type “services.msc“, then press “Enter“.
3. The Services window displays. Find “Superfetch” in the list.
4. Right-click “Superfetch“, then select “Properties“.
5. Select the “Stop” button if you wish to stop the service. In the “Startup type” dropdown menu, choose “Disabled“.

Enable or Disable from Registry

1. Hold the Windows Key, while pressing “R” to bring up the Run dialog box.
2. Type “Regedit“, then press “Enter“.
3. The Registry Editor window appears. Navigate to the following location in the Registry.
   • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
   • SYSTEM
   • CurrentControlSet
   • Control
   • Session Manager
   • MemoryManagement
   • PrefetchParameters
4. On the right side, double-click on “EnableSuperfetch“. If this value doesn’t exist, right-click the “PrefetchParameters” folder, then choose “New” > “DWORD Value“.
5. Give “PrefetchParameters” one of the following values:
   • 0 – to disable Superfetch
   • 1 – to enable prefetching when program is launched
   • 2 – to enable boot prefetching
   • 3 – to enable prefectching of everything
6. Select “OK“.
7. Close the Registry Editor.

Note: If you disable Superfetch and would like to enable it for certain applications, you can use special switch in the program shortcut: /prefetch:1

2. Dissable by net service

Using NET to stop a Windows Service

To stop a service, run:

net stop <Service-Name>

c:\>net stop "windows Search"

Starting a Windows Service with NET

To start an idle Windows Service, run:

net start <Service-Name>

c:\>net start "windows Search"

To stop this, and prevent it from happening during your current session (until Windows is rebooted) open the Command Prompt (the quickest way is by right-clicking the Start button and selecting Command Prompt (Admin)) and enter the following:


c:\>net stop  "windows Search"

c:\>net stop superfetch

3. Stop BITS (Background Intelligent Transfer Service)

Services.msc:

This method shows you how to Start/Stop Background Intelligent Transfer from Services.msc

Please perform the following steps:




1. Select Start and select run
2. Type services.msc
3. find Background Intelligent Transfer Service

From General tab you can Start/Stop and change the Startup type of Background Intelligent Transfer
To finish press ok button and close Services window
 

 Those changes affecting to reduce the usage of hard d rive therefore remain the bandwidth for data transferring . Also reduce the wear of the drive access arm and reduce drive faults.