[–] 2283775? 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
Have you done extremely thorough scans for malware? I don't think everyone is seeing the level of activity in Windows 10 that you describe.
I have a Windows 10 test pc and I don't notice anything unusual happening with my network drive when I fire it up. When you say it's eating up space, have you found what it's filling your drive with? Is it the backup?
[–] ObeyTheFist 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
This is insightful, it could be malware.
Or Windows Search doing indexing.
[–] Chiefpacman ago
I would of guessed that, but deleting photo's? That's gotta be something bad.
[–] captainVerde 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago (edited ago)
Try switching to Windows 95. It's 85 versions ahead of Windows 10.
[–] [deleted] 0 points 9 points 9 points (+9|-0) ago
[–] ObeyTheFist 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
That's a bit disingenuous. OP already identified that superfetch was accessing network drives.
It's not hard to disable that service.
[–] 2283940? 1 point 4 points 5 points (+5|-1) ago
You can, however, replace that operating system with one that gives you more control over how it operates. Unless you have updatedb in a cron job or mdstat is set to run, I don't think Linux will access your network drives without an explicit user action.
[–] ObeyTheFist 1 point 2 points 3 points (+3|-1) ago
OP said Linux is not an option in this case.
[–] PolishPandaBear 1 point 2 points 3 points (+3|-1) ago
How about formatting it to ext4? Maybe this will help.