Windows update clobbers Daz Studio

ebergerly

ebergerly said:

...many of those "background" processes are not as demanding as a speech synthesised app designed to learn from one's actions.  I don't want Cortana even in the background, I want it off my system completely. 

kyoto kid said:

Oh and I actually do turn off some like "superfetch" which bloats with time. 

Apparently you've made up your mind, but for those who still might be interested, here's a screenshot of my task manager showing the resources that Cortana is "hogging". A total of 3MB of RAM and no CPU time. There are about 50 processes that take more than that. And I haven't even disabled it completely, which you can do very easily. 

I dislike the whole Cortana thing as much as anyone, and I also dislike a lot about Windows 10. But it also has some very good points, and a lot of the anti-Windows 10 sentiment is nothing more than myth.  

Spit

ebergerly said:

Just so people don't go running off thinkin that W10 will gobble "almost 8 GB of RAM", thats definitely not normal, and I suspect the user has some other issues going on. The 32 bit W10 uses only 1GB, and 64 bit uses 2GB according to MS. In practice, I'll see maybe less than 4GB with a few apps open. I'd suggest you look at Task Manager and see what processes are really consuming memory.

On a clean boot mine does. And the top culprit is Skype followed by Cortana. Right now I've added Firefox (over a gig), DIM, one file Explorer and it's up to 31% of memory taken--close to 10 gigs Task manager has over 200 items in it. Yes there's anti-virus stuff, some Dell stuff, and the indexer which I killed off under Win 7. And why does MS load all the photos for backgrounds into memory at once?

I'm not afraid of Win 10 in fact I like it a lot. It's just taking a heckuva lot more time to figure how to handle all the things that have come up. Associations changing with a couple of updates (I've had about 4 or 5 of them since last fall), power management settings changed, etc. Every day it's something. Whether windows didn't come up when I powered up, or I got another notification that there's another driver update from Dell, or whatever.

Though it's not all 'bad stuff' some just needs attention (time) and/or researching which all takes away from what I got the new PC FOR..

I'm on Win 10 Pro and don't regret it. I'm just anxious to settle in and feel normal. It only took a couple weeks, maybe three, with Win 7 but a heckuva lot longer with Win 10,

 

 

ebergerly

Sounds like you're equating Cortana and Windows 10 with all the applications you're running. On a fresh boot Cortana takes around 56MB for about 10 seconds then drops to 3.3 MB after a few seconds and stays there. Cortana is not hogging anything, and I think all I've done is turned off the sliders in the Cortana settings. 

Now if you have a ton of stuff that automatically starts up when you boot, that's your choice, and you can change that. Go into Task Manager, the Startup tab, and it will show you everything that you've configured (either knowingly or unknowingly) to start automatically when you boot. In my W10, on startup there's a total of 4GB memory being used by everything. Most of it by my browser (over a GB or more with all the processes it started), anti-malware stuff, and so on. But that's not W10's hogging RAM, that's my choice of what browser to use and what antimalware and so on. 

By the way, speaking of browsers, have you guys seen how much of your resources are hogged by your browser? It's incredible. It makes Cortana and just about everything else look like nothing. Chrome has so many processes running that it's taking probably over 1.5GB of RAM, and well as a significant portion of CPU time. But nobody is complaining about that.