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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.
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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.
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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.
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