Windows 10: excessive data usage of microsoft edge

To save money I recently downgraded my internet service to 25mb per second. I later found out via email from my ISP (near the month end) that I had reached 90 percent of my allotted data usage of 1024 GB, upon checking my data usage by app, I was shocked to see that EDGE had used 963gb in the last 28 days, everything else's usage was negligible. ie; I only use one device (my pc). I did recently subscribe to Hulu Live and I also use USTVGO. What should/can I do to reduce this seemingly excessive data usage by Microsoft edge?

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High CPU usage Microsoft Edge on video Streaming

Hi Sibtain,

Let's try to isolate the cause of this issue with the high CPU usage in Edge. We suggest that you clear your browsing data. Clearing your browsing data will help improve the performance of Edge. To clear, kindly follow the steps below:

• Open Edge.
• Click on the three dots icon on the upper-right part of the screen.
• Click Settings.
• Under Clear browsing data, click on Choose what to clear.
• Click on Clear.

You can also visit this link with a similar concern as yours and check the solution
provided by Josette Sal.

Let us know if you have any other questions.

 

Excess data usage on Windows 10

What is causing excess data use in Windows 10? Data usage jumped 26 GB in a little over 1 hour this morning. Only thing open is my email a finance app.

 

Options to control excessive data usage

A phone reset would take the phone back to its factory setting. Just like it was when you switched the phone on, the very first time.

After you do a phone reset, use the phone as it is, without installing any apps for a few days. During these days, if you are still seeing excessive data usage, then the OS is corrupt and the phone would need replacing. If there is no excessive data usage,
then the phone is phone and the rogue app that was influencing such behaviour has now been removed by the phone reset operation.

Please do a data backup before you do the reset.