I then attempted all of the published fixes for the Disk Overload issue - increasing the disk cache, changing some of the Advanced settings - nothing worked. That's when I spotted the "Disk Overload 100%" error in the utorrent client footer, and that the xfer speed would drop to only a few kb/s. I was about to concede defeat and reinstall windows and start from scratch, when I noticed these issues were occuring in a sequence, and only after I had utorrent running with a fast transfer speed (approx 2.5 mb/s). Nothing worked, and none of the diagnostic tools were telling me what the issue was. There was nothing recorded in the Event Viewer logs, I rigorously tested all the hard drives, memory, a complete virus scan, uninstalled the last dozen programs and updates, you name it - installed ALL the Windows 7 available updates, removed optional add ons to the shell. The only way to get out was to force a reset. 2 days ago I started getting major freezes across multiple applications - Windows File Explorer, Chrome, utorrent - even Task Manager would crash and freeze. I have been running an old version of utorrent - 2.2,1 for quite some time, mainly because I believe in sticking with stable versions of software to limit the amount of time I have to work "on" the system. Thought I would share this to save some other poor shmuck 2 days of troubleshooting to diagnose the issue.
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