last year, I realized my laptop takes a long time to boot up because it immediately uses 100% of its disk, and giving it a few minutes helped. tonight, I restarted it and started a timer. it stayed at 100% disk for a full 19 minutes before suddenly settling around a healthy 30-40

to be clear, it& #39;s just been sitting on my lap. all I did was open task manager right away to monitor the %

finally pressed opened the Start menu and about three seconds later it hit 100% again

does uh,,, does anyone who knows things about computers have any recommendations

I should mention that the whole time, with no apps running, there were over 100 background processes and over 100 other Windows processes