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Originally Posted by ApK
(By way, regarding the "0% cpu" usage mentioned earlier....y'all realize that's rounded down, right? There has to be a decimal value there somewhere or the program couldn't do anything.
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So not true. Unless you’re talking about 0.04% or lower usage. And if anyone is fretting over 0.04% or lower CPU usage, well then I don’t know what to say. (Actually I know what I’d say but I don’t want to get banned.)
Here is a screenshot of my Task Manager. I’ve sorted by the CPU column. As you can see, Windows measures usage down to 0.1%.
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And the "< 1MB of memory" describes the total amount of memory many computers had for a good many decades! So I'm with eschwarts. Watch your kilobytes and the megabytes will take care of themselves.)
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Not sure exactly what you’re trying to say there, but it’s also not true. Maybe you misunderstood or I didn’t make myself clear, but my point was that GWX (which is the W10 update program and its associated notification icon) consumes <1mb of memory usage on my system. Below is another screenshot of my Task Manager showing what it’s normally doing. See? GWX is using just 0% CPU, 0.3mb of memory, and zero network and disk space.
IMO, if one plans to update, then I recommend keeping GWX enabled. It’s such a miniscule hit to system resources that it’s not going to slow down your computer.
Of course, if someone wants to disable it because they don't like the icon, that’s another matter, but then I would recommend using one of the 2 options outlined at tenforums.com which doesn’t require you to uninstall it. Keep in mind, there have been a few people who uninstalled GWX and then couldn’t get it back in Windows Update afterwards. They had to download it separately and manually install it.
--Pat