I've tried googling and fixing this issue for 12+ hours. Here's the deal: whenever I open new programs, my hard drive jumps up to 100% usage. The problem is my read/write speed looks like it's capped around 10 MB/s.

I have a 6 month old Dell XPS 8500 with Windows 8 (i7, 8GB RAM, 1 TB Segate 7200 rpm hard drive). I consistently take care of it (defrag, clean sweep, virus/malware protection). Please see the dropbox link for examples of my issue. Page 3 shows all my specs.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

https://www.dropbox.com/s/docf6zu4ndzgl ... 100%25.pdf

could be a bloated operating system that needs to be reinstalled or the hard drive is suffering from overheating. Another problem it might be is the drive is on its way out.