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<blockquote data-quote="Vipersan" data-source="post: 966558" data-attributes="member: 325666">Windows is stealing my resources Grrr ..Earlier today I tried to get a good weather image of the storm as it moved North and East over the UK ..sadly not possible on account Orbitron &gt; SDR# &gt; WXtoIMG had the Optiplex running flat out at 100% CPU and half of the available RAM in use ...Thus the process ground to a halt..I know that it was possible before ..so what had changed ?Well since the wifi dongle had been installed ..for no other purpose than TLE and Keppler updates ..windows seized the opportunity to install service pack 1 in my recently built win7 OS ..Not that I minded this ...until it became apparent that something had changed due to the updates having been installed ..but what ?Running up task manager with nothing else active ..ie no other program running ...I took a look at cpu and memory use ..gulp !! ...cpu was approx 58% used ..and a large chunk of ram ...deeper investigation revealed svcHost was eating these processes ...and digging even deeper revealed the specific process was windows automatic updates ...constantly running in the background and soaking up practically all the limited resources ..I turned off svcHost and this got me back to about 2% cpu ....but of course the problem returned after a reboot ...so I have totally switched off windows ability to search for and download any further updates ..ignoring the warning ..After all anything downloaded for installation on the Optiplex is scanned and vetted on my main PC ...and I simply dont want internet access on this unit other than TLE etc.So hopefully problem solved ...but I still can't get over Microshyte consuming resources at this level without considering the consequences for the end user..rgdsVS</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Vipersan, post: 966558, member: 325666"] Windows is stealing my resources Grrr .. Earlier today I tried to get a good weather image of the storm as it moved North and East over the UK .. sadly not possible on account Orbitron > SDR# > WXtoIMG had the Optiplex running flat out at 100% CPU and half of the available RAM in use ... Thus the process ground to a halt.. I know that it was possible before ..so what had changed ? Well since the wifi dongle had been installed ..for no other purpose than TLE and Keppler updates ..windows seized the opportunity to install service pack 1 in my recently built win7 OS .. Not that I minded this ...until it became apparent that something had changed due to the updates having been installed ..but what ? Running up task manager with nothing else active ..ie no other program running ... I took a look at cpu and memory use .. gulp !! ...cpu was approx 58% used ..and a large chunk of ram ... deeper investigation revealed svcHost was eating these processes ...and digging even deeper revealed the specific process was windows automatic updates ...constantly running in the background and soaking up practically all the limited resources .. I turned off svcHost and this got me back to about 2% cpu .. ..but of course the problem returned after a reboot ...so I have totally switched off windows ability to search for and download any further updates ..ignoring the warning .. After all anything downloaded for installation on the Optiplex is scanned and vetted on my main PC ...and I simply dont want internet access on this unit other than TLE etc. So hopefully problem solved ...but I still can't get over Microshyte consuming resources at this level without considering the consequences for the end user.. rgds VS [/QUOTE]

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