Windows 10: What is USER_ESRV_SVC_WILLAMETTE?

Just noticed this on Scheduled tasks. It's in the folder C:\Program Files\Intel\SUR\WILLAMETTE\ESRV
Is it safe? Bitdefender and Malvarebytes AM gives me no warning, also if I do a custom scan.

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Apps not closing, still running in background

Thanks for the response. I am not looking for a "close all" function. Sometimes I intentionally want to leave an app running. In windows phone 8.1, I could exit and close th app by merely selecting the arrow/back button, I am looking for that same functionality.
When I'm in an app, I want to be able to exit directly from there and not have it continuing in the background.

 

Apps not closing, still running in background

I just got my Lumia 950 phone. On my prior Windows phone, when I pressed the arrow/back button on the bottom left screen, I would exit the app. On Windows 10 phone, I've been doing that and I just realized I'm not exiting the apps. I had intentionally not
exited an app (because it had my boarding pass). Instead of back button, I pressed the middle window button. Later when I went back to call up my airline app, I pressed the arrow/back button and held it. Similar to my old windows phone, it showed me all the
apps that were open. SURPRISE! unlike my previous phone, no app had been closing. Right now, I can't seem to find a "one click" way to exit an app. The only way is after I've done a few things, I hold the back button and click the "X" on each of the open items.

Can someone tell me how to exit an app with one click or swipe so that it is not still running, i.e. when I press the back button I will not see it? I'm sure this is something simple. I search the instructions that came with the phone and looked in the
forum but haven't found the answer.

thanks in advance the assist.

 

It is Intel® Energy Checker.

It is safe, apparently. But if it auto starts with windows, feel free to disable it in startup.

 

Do you have it?

 

No, mate. *Smile I prefer to have my custom clean reinstall for my laptop; I dont like bloatware packed factory installations.

 

This is apparently the "Intel Energy Checker". It was apparently produced by Willamette which is now part of Intel. (People living in the Willamette Valley, Oregon, USA may be surprised to learn they are owned by Intel.) I have not seen a description of the product. I would guess it's Intel bloatware, but I don't know for sure. Have you tried killing it to see what happens?

 

Not to mention thatthe Wiliamette name also refers to a certain Intel Pentium IV architecture afaik.

 

Intel Energy Checker SDK: your MD simulation uses how many watts? - insideHPC

It is not necessary to run windows. So if it comes preinstalled, it is just a factory bloatware.

 

Hey guys apparently this service installs with Intel driver update utility. It needs to be removed ASAP IMHO because for me it was keeping the processor from entering the c states and thus using around 15 watts more then needed. I have been tracking this down for the last few days and found this. I was almost going to reinstall windows but now I don't have to!