windows update service

[MADe]

For those that are not super pc savvy. Discovered something about windows update service. I use SSD's, they are rather old now and things were slowing down and I figured that they were getting ready to fail. None the less I did a w7, pc, slow down, google.

I have always selected windows to never update, but left the service enabled in component services. But lately I had selected check for but do not DL updates. I had done this because manual updating started taking forever to check. Made it nice to check updates and have them pre-ogled.

Turns out that the pc slow down was due to windows update services. It was grabbing 10% ram and causing 25% cpu usage when pc at idle, see task man, is there a service host task grabbing 100k + ram at idle? . Things were taking to long to load. Now I have the service disabled in component services, pc is snappy again, like a 4GHz pc should be.
 

[Bizman]

Just out of curiosity, since I can't remember and I'm too lazy to check your previous posts: Do you have the updates mentioned in Skuzzy's Hints and Tips post installed/uninstalled/never installed?

Because if you have, they'll phone home and use resources just as you described.

[MADe]

I have removed some on that list. Some are IE 11 so I left those.
 
This seems to be the actual update service that is native to w7, listed in component services. I do not remember ever seeing it such a resource hog, but with MS updates of late, who knows what they added.
I will just keep the service disabled till I need it.
 

[Denniss]

M$ recently released a new Windows update client that's supposed to reduce the resource-hog-like behaviour of Win7 while checking for available updates (which may take hours after each patchday). Don't know if it really fixes the issue that appeared not long after Win10 was released.
May be of interest: http://wu.krelay.de/en/

[MADe]

nice intel ty

I will prolly just keep it disabled.
 

admin tools< perf mon> data collector sets>startup event trace sessions

disable AutoLogger-Diagtrack-Listner

This might be removed by a particular KB uninstall???????? google it, see if u want it.
I disabled readyboot as well, I disable superfetch.