Unknown Windows 10 Traps

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Unknown Windows 10 Traps

System and Compressed Memory Service High CPU Usage

IanCP

5:37 am on Jun 9, 2016 (gmt 0)

Windows 10 becoming sluggish? Fire up Task Manager [Ctrl/Alt/Del] now, and check your CPU/Memory usage. Scroll down and see what is consuming either, or both. You might become surprised. I was.

Googling around I found this story which mystified me, being on a system one would imagine would be bullet proof.

"I'm running on an x79 system board with 8 core 16 thread Xeon processor and 32 GBs of RAM and Windows 10 Build 10586.14 and this service/process takes upwards of 40% of my CPU. It slows my system to a crawl then it will stop then start back up again. I've rebuilt this machine from scratch a few times with the same results. I'm looking for some help in trying to figure out why this process is taking up so much CPU time..."

[answers.microsoft.com ]

I'll see what the recommended Windows Performance Toolkit offers and report back... The link to the toolkit is in the Microsoft story, but you have to make sure you have the Win 10 one, a further link on again.

bill

7:15 am on Jun 9, 2016 (gmt 0)

I've got a similar Xeon with 16GB of RAM, and I constantly have Task Manager running to see what's slowing things down. Usually it's something I understand. I'd be interested to hear if that Windows Performance Toolkit gives you anything you can take action on, or if it's just useful for making reports back to Microsoft techs.

IanCP

8:08 pm on Jun 9, 2016 (gmt 0)

I'll have to run it once again when I have a gazillion tabs open in Firefox, IE11, and Chome along with other programs open.

Unremarkable so far. Need to run it in "Light" mode otherwise the file runs to GB's.