GadgetMan
I have had several occasions now where I've had high CPU usage, fans whirring but Task Manager tells me nothing is running above 10%
I then discovered if I clicked Resource Monitor of the Perfromance tab of the Task Manager and sort the CPU column descending, I get to see the full picture and the file wmpnetwk.exe is the culprit.
This is the Windows service for media sharing. I don't have media sharing setup nor am I connected to a HomeGroup, but this service was chewing up a steady 49% of my CPU.
By typing services in the Windows start bar I found the offending service and initially stopped it to see what happened - It worked! Lappy returned to virtually silent mode and CPU dropped to 5%.
I then double clicked on the service and disabled it from the drop down list of options.
Hopefully this will keep this from happening again!!!
Hope this helps people,
Roy
I then discovered if I clicked Resource Monitor of the Perfromance tab of the Task Manager and sort the CPU column descending, I get to see the full picture and the file wmpnetwk.exe is the culprit.
This is the Windows service for media sharing. I don't have media sharing setup nor am I connected to a HomeGroup, but this service was chewing up a steady 49% of my CPU.
By typing services in the Windows start bar I found the offending service and initially stopped it to see what happened - It worked! Lappy returned to virtually silent mode and CPU dropped to 5%.
I then double clicked on the service and disabled it from the drop down list of options.
Hopefully this will keep this from happening again!!!
Hope this helps people,
Roy
geposted Fri 17 Dec 10 @ 5:08 am
Advokut
thanks, sounds like its defenitily worth a try
geposted Fri 17 Dec 10 @ 5:18 am
kradcliffe
Thanks for the tip Roy.
I only have one PC running Windoze 7 but I'll have a look later and make sure this is disabled.
Cheers
Keith
I only have one PC running Windoze 7 but I'll have a look later and make sure this is disabled.
Cheers
Keith
geposted Fri 17 Dec 10 @ 6:52 am
lcmxr6
For sure dude, I use Win7 As well. I disable everything associated with WMP. Msconfig is your friend ;)
geposted Fri 17 Dec 10 @ 7:53 pm