My computer occasionally freezes, causing all open programs/applications to stop responding (later most features, except for cursor abilities stop working as well). A window pops up at this time, titled "Microsoft Windows Not Responding". It says that, as far as I remember, "The application has stopped responding. It may respond again if you wait" or something along those lines. It then has two buttons, End Process and Cancel (sometimes I can't click anything because all windows are frozen).
In one freeze instance I was able to open Task Manager to find the Disk at 100%, so I believe this is a likely culprit. However, I don't know what is using up so much disk because when I see the Task Manager Disk column, most programs/applications are only using 0.5-1 mb each.
I don't know why this has started to happen recently; everything was fine until now. Any help would be appreciated.
EDIT: I found, in Task Manager, that "Service Host: Local System (Network Restricted) (10) was using more disk than others for a bit of time. Other network-related service processes included:
Service Host: Local Service (Network Restricted) (7)
Service Host: Local Service (No Impersonation) (4) - I don't know what this one means
Service Host: Local Service (No Network) (4)
Service Host: Local Service (Peer Networking) (3)
Service Host: Network Service (Network Restricted)
There are also a few more Service Host processes with numbers like (15), (5), (2), (6), etc. I'm not sure what these mean, are these and the network-related service processes acting normal?
Another process called Windows Modules Installer Worker was the largest disk user at 10-18 MB/s when the disk went up to 50%.
In one freeze instance I was able to open Task Manager to find the Disk at 100%, so I believe this is a likely culprit. However, I don't know what is using up so much disk because when I see the Task Manager Disk column, most programs/applications are only using 0.5-1 mb each.
I don't know why this has started to happen recently; everything was fine until now. Any help would be appreciated.
EDIT: I found, in Task Manager, that "Service Host: Local System (Network Restricted) (10) was using more disk than others for a bit of time. Other network-related service processes included:
Service Host: Local Service (Network Restricted) (7)
Service Host: Local Service (No Impersonation) (4) - I don't know what this one means
Service Host: Local Service (No Network) (4)
Service Host: Local Service (Peer Networking) (3)
Service Host: Network Service (Network Restricted)
There are also a few more Service Host processes with numbers like (15), (5), (2), (6), etc. I'm not sure what these mean, are these and the network-related service processes acting normal?
Another process called Windows Modules Installer Worker was the largest disk user at 10-18 MB/s when the disk went up to 50%.
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