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100% Disk Usage Seemingly Out of Nowhere

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I used my PC to play some games maybe a week, or so, ago. It was running fine, no issues from what I could tell and the PC was running properly. I didn't play for about a week due to work, then turned the PC off completely to unplug it in order to set my new desk up. I got the desk set up, plugged in the PC and went to bed. I woke up this morning to play Warzone/Apex Legends and it was the slowest experience I've had to date. I also tried updating Black Ops Cold War and it seemed to be taking WAY too long. I finally checked my disk usage and as soon as I open just a game's launcher it spikes straight up to 100% usage. I tried looking online for a solution but nothing seems to be working. What should I do?

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The "Battle.net Update Agent" and "Battle.net" processes seem to be the worst offenders. I've attached a screenshot of the processes tab and you can see they are either using the most disk space or power, jumping from low, to moderate, to high.


Tech Support Guy System Info Utility version 1.0.0.9
OS Version: Microsoft Windows 10 Home, 64 bit, Build 19042, Installed 20210123014337.000000-420
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-10400F CPU @ 2.90GHz, Intel64 Family 6 Model 165 Stepping 5, CPU Count: 12
Total Physical RAM: 16 GB
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660
Hard Drives: C: 476 GB (25 GB Free);
Motherboard: ASRock B460M Pro4/ac, s/n M80-D8028802377
System: American Megatrends Inc., ver ALASKA - 1072009, s/n To Be Filled By O.E.M.
Antivirus: Windows Defender, Enabled and Updated

Thank you in advance.

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The 512 GB(476 GB actual capacity) C: drive in your PC is about 95% full, so I'm guessing it's full of apps or personal data or both.

Submit an image of the Task Manager "Startup" tab so we can see how many apps are auto-starting and running in the background.

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