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July 29, 2020
Protect Yourself From Tech Support Scams
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Every now and then, I find the processor running at 100% and Process Explorer tells me that taskhost is running RACtask and is using all available processor resources. The only solution I've found is to kill this and then processor usage goes back to normal.
Anyone got any ideas why this might be happening?
I tried adding the WMIEnable key as described above. It made no difference. I played around some more and finally found this link that describes how to reset the reliabilty monitor database:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/20779-reliability-monitor-reset.html After I reset the database the problem seems to have gone away.
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