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[alexseanchai]

What the fuck is my laptop doing that a system process—helpfully called "System"—is using sometimes nearly 90% of the Disk meter?

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[jmtorres]

secretly mining bitcoin?

[alexseanchai]

ugh it better not be

also Norton swore last week it's clean

[hitokage]

Which operating system and which disk meter?

[alexseanchai]

Windows 10 and uh



that one

[hitokage]

Ah, I'm still learning Win10, so I'm less sure. I'm not sure if 10 still does it, I know earlier iterations of Windows, System would do that when it was doing certain background operations, like disk cleaning. If Norton says you're clean, I'd suggest snagging the free edition of Malwarebytes and see if it comes up with anything. Having a second opinion can't hurt.

[jadelennox]

Go to Details, and you'll see exactly which process this is. often this happens when the disk in indexing.