GWX
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Boatrocker
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GWX
Back to a tech note, is anyone else using Windows having trouble with this GWX.exe thing MS sneaked into a Win7 update? I think I killed it, but the damned thing was sucking resources like a GOP presidential candidate- 2-3 gigs of memory and 75% or more of my CPU.
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Re: GWX
Yeah, that's the update notifier for your free update to Windows 10.Boatrocker wrote:Back to a tech note, is anyone else using Windows having trouble with this GWX.exe thing MS sneaked into a Win7 update? I think I killed it, but the damned thing was sucking resources like a GOP presidential candidate- 2-3 gigs of memory and 75% or more of my CPU.
It shouldn't be using resources like that tho. Apparently it is removable... though painfully.
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/wind ... 4b3f6dce75
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Boatrocker
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Re: GWX
Took me about an hour to get rid of it. I still use a 5 yr old laptop and I would never try to run a Win OS upgrade on a machine more than 6 months old.
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Boatrocker
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Re: GWX
Four more: "Lend me some money?"O Really wrote:Two words - "Back Up!"Boatrocker wrote: I still use a 5 yr old laptop ...
Two more words - "Go shopping."
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Re: GWX
Nooooooooooooo. Use it till it dies!O Really wrote:Two words - "Back Up!"Boatrocker wrote: I still use a 5 yr old laptop ...
Two more words - "Go shopping."
But if you need a new computer, get a refurbished one. I got mine for about 230 bucks with decent specs. Had it for over a year now with no complaint other than a windows 8.1 upgrade issue, but that's sometimes expected.
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Re: GWX
And we know computers always die gently at a time convenient to the user, right?
I'm not one who tosses out a perfectly good machine just because it's got a few years on it, but the older it gets, the less reliable it's likely to be. So it gets re-purposed for something that doesn't matter if it dies. Or gets used for online only.
I agree on the refurbished. I've had good luck with that, too.
I'm not one who tosses out a perfectly good machine just because it's got a few years on it, but the older it gets, the less reliable it's likely to be. So it gets re-purposed for something that doesn't matter if it dies. Or gets used for online only.
I agree on the refurbished. I've had good luck with that, too.