1. Disable all items in Task Manager Statup, then re-started Windows 8 in SAFE mode.

2. Noted that disk performance was not constantly at 100% for more than a second or two. This basically eliminated
whatever was running at this point as the culprit.
3. Disable all items in Task Manager Statup, then re-started Windows 8 in SAFE WITH NETWORKING mode.
4. Noted that the disk performance was again constantly at 100% for long periods of time. So, turning on networking
caused things to do bad!
5. I disabled my Wi-Fi driver on the Device Manager, then again re-started Windows 8 in SAFE WITH NETWORKING
mode.
6. I then noted that disk performance was NOT constantly at 100% for more than a second or two. This pointed to my
Wi-Fi driver as the culprit.
7. I have an ASUS U36J laptop with a Qualcomm Atheros AR9002WB-1NG Wi-Fi adapter, which I had upgraded to
Win8 from Win7 about 2 months ago. Everything worked okay after that upgrade until a Windows update session
during the last 2 weeks, which must have installed some "stuff" --- after which this disk performance problem
started. Something in that Windows update must have "triggered" the bad behavior of this old Win7 wi-fi driver.
8. I went to the ASUS site and could not locate a Windows 8 specific driver for this adapter there. So, I went to 3rd
party site (www.atheros.cz) and found a Windows 8 specific driver there.
9. I updated the current driver with the one that I downloaded from the above site, then again re-started Windows 8 in
SAFE WITH NETWORKING mode.
10. I noted that disk performance was not constantly at 100% for more than a second or two. This indicated that the
new driver did the trick.
11. I then enabled about half the Startup items, and re-started Win8 normally. All was well.
12. But, when I enabled the remaining half of the Startup items and re-started Win8 normally, THE PROBLEM START
AGAIN!?!?! It seems that something in these Startup items was triggering the bad behavior again!
13. To make a long story short, I went through each of the Startup Items and disabled them one by one then re-started
in normal mode. At the end of this process, almost all the ASUS "bloatware" were disabled before this bad behavior
stopped.
14. It's been over 24 hours now, and the problem has not re-occured.

The bottom line is that I now believe that this disk performance problem is caused by bad drivers, in my case Wi-Fi
drivers, but in other cases it may be other drivers. I believe that keeping Win7 drivers in a Win8 system may work at
the beginning, but at some point a Windows Update will come along and trigger some bad behavior.

Windows8 automatically manages virtual memory and paging file size by default.
It doesn't sets virtual memory as per the internal recommendation. The virtual memory set by default is approximately
70% of the recommendation. E.g. For my laptop, it recommends 2003MB of virtual memory wherein each drive size is
of 100GB & RAM is 3GB. By default it got set to 1403MB when Windows8 was installed.

You need to increase this virtual memory. Make it equivalent to your RAM size for the initial size and twice of the initial
size in maximum size and make sure you have the same amount of free space in your hard drive in each drive.

To do this, follow the following steps:
1. Go to Control Panel> All control panel items > System
2. Click on Advanced system settings
3. Under performance, click on settings
4. Go to Advanced tab
5. Under Virtual memory, click on Change
6. UN-check "Automatically manage paging file size for all drives" check box
7. Select your windows drive (where OS is installed)
8. Click on Custom size radio button
9. Set Initial size equivalent to your RAM size in MB
10. Set Maximum size to twice of your RAM size in MB
11. Click on Set
12. Click on OK thrice
13. Restart your system
Sistema W8.
1 - na rea de trabalho segurar as teclas Windows + X
2 - Em executar, digite "services.msc"
3 - procure o servio "windows Search" e pare o servio.
4 - Logo aps clica duas vezes em cima do servio e em tipo
de inicializao selecione "desativar"
5 - Vocs ja vo sentir a melhora + reinicie o pc

Redefina o tamanho da memria virtual
Outra soluo apontada por algumas pessoas
apontar manualmente o tamanho da memria
virtual utilizada pelo sistema operacional. Por
padro, o Windows 8 utiliza um mtodo de
gerenciamento e deteco automtica, mas
possvel determinar tudo manualmente.

Assim, v at o Painel de Controle e abra a seo Sistema e
Segurana. Em seguida, clique no boto Configuraes
avanadas do sistema, localizado na parte esquerda da tela.
Uma nova janela ser aberta. Ali, clique na aba Avanado e, na
rea Desempenho, aperte no boto Configuraes.
Mais uma janela se abrir e novamente voc deve ir aba
Avanado. Na rea Memria Virtual clique no boto
Alterar.... Agora, desmarque a opo Gerenciar
automaticamente o tamanho do arquivo de paginao de todas
as unidades.

Isso far com que a parte de baixo da janela fique acessvel.
ali que voc capaz de gerenciar a memria. Antes de tudo,
no entanto, marque a unidade que contm o chamado arquivo
de paginao, pois essa partio que conta com o sistema
operacional instalado. Agora, clique no boto Tamanho
personalizado.
Feito isso, voc capaz de apontar o tamanho inicial e o
tamanho mximo de uso da memria virtual. O recomendado que voc marque, como mnimo,
um espao igual ao tamanho da sua memria RAM instalada no seu computador. Ou seja, se
voc tem 4 GB de RAM, aponte tambm os mesmos 4 GB como memria virtual.