I am hoping this is the correct place to ask. I have been experiencing 100% Disk usage on my laptop which causes it to be very slow. Key strokes and button presses, everything becomes slow.

I have a HP 255 G8 which has 4Gb of RAM and a Ryzen 3250 processor with 1Tb of HDD. I know that Win 11 requires 4 Gb of RAM and thus I upgraded it to 8Gb. This does make a difference, but I still get the same problem.

Things I have tried

• Changing/resetting the virtual memory to the recommended amount as per many websites’ advice.
• Checked for Malware of which there are none.
• Checked for driver updates of which there are none.
• Checked for newer versions of Windows. Currently updating to Win 11 23H2.
• Disabled all startup apps.

If I leave the computer for a minute or so then the Disk usage drops down to the standard 0 or 1%. The monent I start using it again it goes back to 100%.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated and thank you in advance.