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| From | Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.microsoft.windows |
| Subject | Re: Disadvantage disabling SearchApp.exe |
| Date | 2023-02-15 19:04 -0500 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
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On 2/15/2023 2:57 PM, RJH wrote:
> On 15 Feb 2023 at 11:31:24 AM, Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:
>
>> tasklist /svc
>
>
>> and I can't find wuauserv now.
> tasklist /svc | findstr wuauserv
> svchost.exe 6860 wuauserv
>
> Am I supposed to kill whatever that is doing?
> wuauserv?https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+wuauserv.exe
>
> https://www.minitool.com/lib/wuauserv.html
> "Wuauserv is the Windows Update Service, which is responsible for
> automatically downloading and installing software created by Microsoft"
>
> In services.msc my "Windows Update" is set to manual.
> What is your recommendation?
>
> The biggest "hog" now in my system is "MSMpEng.exe" but I can't kill that
> because it's the antivirus I think. I couldn't even lower the Affinity
> because it wouldn't let me change the number of CPUs that it runs on.
Well, the reason I was looking for wuauserv, is because that
is an "orientation feature of the landscape". The wuauserv is
supposed to be inside the "big" SVCHost. I expect to see it in
that group of services.
Yet it appears for some reason, it is not running on my Windows 11.
Services do not have to use any cycles. A lot of those services
cost you nothing but a bit of RAM.
There is no particular reason to kill it, especially if the USO
service is controlling the wuauserv for us. USO is a scheme
that might be used on Enterprise, but they decided to test
it on the consumer SKUs too. USO causes three command prompt
windows to appear and rapidly disappear, right after the desktop
appears.
*******
MSMpEng.exe can be controlled from the... well, mine is playing
dead right now.
Windows Security : Virus & threat protection : Virus & threat protection settings : manage settings
Move Real-time protection slider to Off.
You will see a UAC prompt, click OK.
DO NOT close the Windows Security panel. If you do,
MsMpEng.exe will be put back into scanning mode again.
You leave that window open, and just stack other windows
on top or around it.
Note that, even when the slider is in the OFF position,
the process can be scanning. Depending on the mood it is
in, it might start scanning again after ten minutes. This is
one of the curses of nadless software controls. It turns
the computer into a Fisher Price busy box, where you spin
knobs and nothing happens.
The purpose of switching off the Real-Time protection,
is to aid the performance of read-only apps. For example,
if I use hashdeep64 and attempt to generate checksums
for a file tree, with MsMpEng running, the ability to
read files is reduced to 12% of normal. Pretty slow.
I turn off the Real-Time scan, while hashdeep calculates
the checksums. Then, turn it back on when finished.
You leave real-time scanning enabled, when you are
double-clicking EXE files and the like. Any activity with
a perceived (Safe-Hex) danger or attack surface, you want
the real-time scan running.
If the scanning did not degrade performance, I wouldn't
be doing this.
Paul
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