Right-click on the taskbar and select Task Manager. Therefore, if you’re encountering something similar, ISP is another point to check.Here’s how to identify the cause of 100% disk usage with Windows Task Manager: I have reported the issue to my ISP and will get back to them in a few days.
However, having experienced something similar before (i.e. some sites not loading for a specific ISP), I finally tried connecting my PC to my mobile wifi (which is from another provider, Globe) and poof, the Disk Usage (and download speed) shot up! Without closing the Steam application, I reconnected to the DSL wifi and as expected, Disk Usage went down to zero (with d/l at a few kb/s only). The problem was not apparent: was returning proper speeds and pings, regular browsing was fine too. Yes, the fault was at my broadband provider’s side (PLDT myHome DSL).
Fortunately, I was able to find the issue, that’s why I’m sharing it here. It was quite frustrating that while there were other similar experiences, I was unable to find the fix or explanation to the problem I encountered. Of course, I was Googling my way throughout the entire ordeal. Unfortunately, all of these did not fix the problem. While in the process of reformatting, I checked and redid the hardware connections too.
After more troubleshooting on other components (USB wifi, LAN, drivers, etc) finally, it boiled down to reformatting my OS HDD, suspecting that some Windows registries got messed up when that HDD, which also had applications, died. First thing I suspected was a bad disk, given that the HDD containing my Steam directory died around the same time (still trying to recover that). I tried reinstalling the Steam client again and again, including on different HDDs on my PC, but the problem persisted. These past few days, I suddenly noticed that my Steam client’s download “Disk Usage”stats was zero or had very low bytes. Aha, almost had no post for 2016! Actually, I’m writing another entry, but this should be quicker.
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