Windows 10 - Random Programm abuses my CPU
Hello dear Redditians,
I have had the problem for a few weeks/months that a program is using a random CPU core completely. In addition, there is an enormous amount of traffic on my network card both upstream and downstream.
I have all current Windows 10 updates, I have already done an antivirus scan with Windows Defender, Bitdefender, Malwarebytes... all negative. In a Wireshark scan I noticed that during this "load period" all the time an IP is tried to reach. (Cloudflare IP) However, I could only record the whole thing once so far.
Here is a screenshot how it looks like in the task manager.
I hope somebody can help me there. I am about to reinstall my computer. What is problematic is that I use this computer for developing websites and many of my programs use volume licenses.
Best regards
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Posted Aug 22, 2020, 6:06 PM UTC
Go into processes, sort by CPU first and Network next with the arrow facing down and send the picture.
I can do that, but I have to wait until the next time this happens again. I had already done this a few times. Most of the time this happens on the Microsoft Edge (I actually have the program open 99% of the time I'm sitting at the PC. And it is always a single process. Unfortunately I can't identify exactly what this is. Earlier it was for example Discord. But there were already dozens of other programs.
It could be Windows Update or something and I hope you have unlimited internet if it does this often.
Yes, I have Internet without traffic limitation and Gigabit in the download. However, all this is of no use to me if my PC goes completely down because one core is being used to its maximum capacity. Often this happens when I am doing something important. And then I am forced (when it's the Edge again) to close the whole browser -.-
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