u/WhatSoupGuy

Hi everyone,

I wanted to share a fix for a problem I've been dealing with for the past few days. I noticed my PC was becoming extremely sluggish and unresponsive. After some digging, I found that nordvpn-service.exe was constantly hitting my disk with 50-70 MB/s of write operations.

What I tried (that didn't work):

• Turning off Threat Protection.
• Disabling Meshnet.
• Disconnecting from the VPN.
• Resetting the app and disabling diagnostics.

What I found out: I opened the Windows Resource Monitor and filtered for nordvpn-service.exe. I saw that it was aggressively writing to two specific files:

1. C:\ProgramData\NordVPN\Analytics\NordVPN.db-journal
2. C:\ProgramData\NordVPN\Analytics\NordVPN.db

It seems the analytics database got corrupted or stuck in a loop.

The Solution:

1. Stop all NordVPN services (via Task Manager or Services.msc).
2. Navigate to C:\ProgramData\NordVPN\.
3. Delete the entire Analytics folder.
4. Restart your computer.

As soon as I did this, the disk usage dropped to 0-1%, and my system was back to normal. The app will recreate the folder if needed, but the constant disk thrashing has stopped.

Hope this helps anyone else experiencing sudden system lag!