News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on High CPU use by taskhost.exe when Windows 8.1 user name contains “user”. Parent comment

Re:High CPU use by taskhost.exe when Windows 8.1 user name c... by herbst on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @03:41AM (#11711908)
As most technet "solutions" have something todo with reinstalling the whole system, this seems a pretty good "solution" to me.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:High CPU use by taskhost.exe when Windows 8.1 user name c... by yAnonymous on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @03:54AM (#11711945)
The "solution" is deleting the user and migrating all their stuff to another account. That's not really better than a re-install.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:High CPU use by taskhost.exe when Windows 8.1 user name c... by JoBrad on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @07:36AM (#11712707)
No, you can just rename the user account.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:High CPU use by taskhost.exe when Windows 8.1 user name c... by torgeek on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @09:23AM (#11713386)
thats like a whole hour less work. praise the operating system gods because this is as efficient as it gets.
[ Parent | on HN ]