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So just sitting here watching my windows VM's cpu usage to monitor was seems to be causing some stuttering and then out of fucking nowhere the default photo's app pops and and claims 96% of the CPU...

I understand computers are weird but how the hell does an app randomly start and jump to such a high CPU usage?

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    5y
    USB Autoplay against the host system and it started to import pictures?
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    5y
    @bkwilliams nope, doesn't even have a USB controller attached
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    5y
    It’s probably indexing your files, it does that periodically to try and identify any files that may be images outside of “my pictures” folder

    There’s a setting in the app to disable that.
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    5y
    i think when it loads the photo viewer executable file from read only memory it has to create a buffer and parse the instructions to start it. i think windows puts it at a high priority. you should do some research.
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    5y
    Hey, that happens to me too since 1809 update. The laptop is setting idle for a minute or two and the Photos process starts maxing one core, fan kicks in, battery starts to drain.
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    5y
    I believe the photos app can be disabled or uninstalled.
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    5y
    @bahua Nope, it's baked into the OS. The "classic" viewer is still there, but needs to be enabled with registry hacks. New "modern" app still remains, though.
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    5y
    @gronostaj

    Barf.
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