For several days, my Windows 8 computer has experiences an issue where the hard drive is used extremely heavily by the process ntosknrl.exe
for about an hour after I turn it on. This makes all of my programs run slowly and makes some of them unusable altogether.
This is a screenshot of Task Manager:
When I right-click -> Properties on System, I get this:
How can I find out what is causing this behavior? What can I do about it?