Windows 10: How is it that you can just force update while I'm not at my CPU & I lose an entire photo...

I use a program called GIMP that edits photos and allows for painting and whatnot. I spent over an hour tediously drawing in it, then left my computer to go eat. Of COURSE when I come back, I see my CPU screen just start to blip off because of your update. It is ridiculous that this can just fire off when a user hasn't confirmed they've saved their open work.


I want MY HOUR BACK.

:)

 

Pentium M

Not sure what I'm looking at. Though when I do go to Options and then CPU it lists my CPU
as Intel Pentium M processor 1.73 GHz, and then under that it lists speed: 799.9 MHz
and then features and cache size.I ran the benchmark test and don't understand all
those numbers, but while testing I checked CPUZ and it still says it is running at 800 MHz.

 

Update makes games take up entire CPU

Hi,

Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.

To narrow down the cause we will require a few more information. Please reply with the following details:

• Which update was installed on the computer?
  
• What is the complete error message you get for
  srttrail.txt?
  

I would suggest you to post a screenshot of the Task manager to know which process is causing high CPU usage. Press
Ctrl + Shift + Esc to open Task manager. Click on
Details tab and then, click on CPU entry to align the processes in descending order and take a screenshot with all the listed processes.

Please refer how to include a screenshot
in your postto upload the screenshot.

Note: Make sure you don’t capture any personal information while taking the screenshot.


Meanwhile, you can try the troubleshooting steps mentioned and check if it helps in reducing the CPU usage.

Method 1: Disabling Service

Sometimes some service running in background can cause high CPU usage, we can try disabling the service and check for the CPU usage. Please follow the steps mentioned below:

1. Press and hold Windows + R key on the keyboard.
   
2. Type services.msc and click on
   OK.
   
3. Now, look for Superfetch service in the list and right click on the service.
   
4. Click on Stop to stop the service.
   

Method 2: Clean boot

To perform a clean boot on the computer, follow the steps from the article
How to perform a clean boot in Windows.

NOTE: Performing a clean boot will start the computer with minimal set of drivers and programs, to determine whether a background program or process is causing the issue. Some of the Startup programs will not load after
performing a clean boot on the computer. However, that functionality will return when you reset the computer to start normally after finishing the troubleshooting.

If performing a clean boot fixes the issue then, please refer to the section
How to determine what is causing the problem after you do a clean boot
to check which program or process is causing the issue.

Hope it helps.

Please reply with the status of the issue, we will be glad to help you further.

Nikhar Khare

Microsoft Community - Moderator

 

[FS][US] CPU, NForce4 skt 754 motherboard (with PCI-express slot, rare!), DDR RAM

bump, CPU's stepping is now listed.