[pchelpers] Re: Microsoft Security Essentials
- From: Cyril Halbach <cyril.kr3y@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:25:33 -0400
John Durham wrote:
> Cyril Halbach wrote:
>
>> Does anyone have Microsoft Security Essentials installed on vista?
>> I would surely appreciate knowing if it is also hogging your computer as
>> it apparently seems to be
>> doing to me. It is using up 50% of the CPU time when it is running and
>> at times runs higher than that.
>> I thought at first is would scan the machine at night because it is set
>> for 2:00am but for some reason it
>> to run just about any time of the day even when I am using the system.
>> At least Google Desktop only uses
>> the system when it is otherwise idle.
>>
>> Cy
>>
> Still using XP here, but from the sound of things the system could have
> too many applications running at once. Remember how we used to regulate
> that with a thing called "startup control"?
>
>
Well it turns out I was mistaken abouot MS Security essentials. It
turned out to be
Windows Media Player 11 a feature called network sharing service. The
cpu hog is now dead.
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Cyril Halbach
Williamsburg Kentucky
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