Just fun info...
My desktop computer died this week. It seems the cpu overheated. I had tried to slow the processing down because I had a problem of overheating for awhile. I will try another CPU so I can retrieve stuff from the drive before i decide what to do next.
I activated a Vista computer and, haha, was seeing the CPU running at 100%. I started killing various services: old printer support, Zend tools, update utilities, Symantec, windows installer ... It seems like the final things that worked were the deactivation of the BITS Background Intelligent Transfer Service and the Windows Update. These certainly are of little benefit after so many years.
It is always fun to see what services can be removed without losing stuff that is still needed. I didn't list the things I was disabling until half way through this process.
My desktop computer died this week. It seems the cpu overheated. I had tried to slow the processing down because I had a problem of overheating for awhile. I will try another CPU so I can retrieve stuff from the drive before i decide what to do next.
I activated a Vista computer and, haha, was seeing the CPU running at 100%. I started killing various services: old printer support, Zend tools, update utilities, Symantec, windows installer ... It seems like the final things that worked were the deactivation of the BITS Background Intelligent Transfer Service and the Windows Update. These certainly are of little benefit after so many years.
It is always fun to see what services can be removed without losing stuff that is still needed. I didn't list the things I was disabling until half way through this process.
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