Monday, January 30, 2017

Windows 7 Update CPU slowdown (and what to do about it!)

The Problem


So this is my quick elaboration on this.  Which, I find, isn't that effective of a fix (at least on laptops), in that the system can still be slowed to a crawl when Windows update is kicked off.  Where Windows Task Manager will allow you to visualize the problem.  First from the consumed CPU,

Even when you have more cores, your PC can still feel quite sluggish.