Stop "Runtime Broker" from running constantly in the background

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  1. Posts : 75
    Win 10 Home Edition
       #1

    Stop "Runtime Broker" from running constantly in the background


    How to stop "Runtime Broker" from running constantly in the background.


    Running win 10 Home 32 bit upgraded from Win 7 Home Premium
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  2. Posts : 360
    Windows 10 Pro x64
       #2

    Someone mentioned that they solved this problem by going to Settings, System Display, Notifications & actions. Turn OFF "Show me tips about windows".

    If that doesn't work, you can edit the Registry to disable "Runtime Broker", but this will also prevent Microsoft Store Apps from running.

    Runtime Broker is a service called Time Broker, which can be disabled through editing the registry.

    Right-click on the Start Menu Icon. Go to RUN and type regedit.exe and select OK.

    Find the following entry:

    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\TimeBroker] "Start"=dword:00000003

    Change the 3 to a 4.

    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\TimeBroker] "Start"=dword:00000004

    4 is Disabled, 3 is Manual and 2 is Automatic startup.

    Before editing, the original value was 3. Set to 4 to disable. Just change the 3 to a 4 through the MODIFY menu selection, exit regedit and reboot your system.
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  3. Posts : 220
    Windows 10 Home (forever?)
       #3

    After rebooting for today's win10 cumulative update, my UPS was not detected saying "no battery." Unplugging and plugging it in again fixed it. I also noticed this runtime broker high cpu problem, and what made it go away for me was simply opening the system settings app, didn't have to change any settings either. Guess that's lucky, will be watching for recurrences for sure now!
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  4. Posts : 75
    Win 10 Home Edition
    Thread Starter
       #4

    Antilope said:
    Someone mentioned that they solved this problem by going to Settings, System Display, Notifications & actions. Turn OFF "Show me tips about windows".

    If that doesn't work, you can edit the Registry to disable "Runtime Broker", but this will also prevent Microsoft Store Apps from running.

    Runtime Broker is a service called Time Broker, which can be disabled through editing the registry.

    Right-click on the Start Menu Icon. Go to RUN and type regedit.exe and select OK.

    Find the following entry:

    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\TimeBroker] "Start"=dword:00000003

    Change the 3 to a 4.

    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\TimeBroker] "Start"=dword:00000004

    4 is Disabled, 3 is Manual and 2 is Automatic startup.

    Before editing, the original value was 3. Set to 4 to disable. Just change the 3 to a 4 through the MODIFY menu selection, exit regedit and reboot your system.
    Have set key to 4 and will observe the activities.

    Thank you
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  5. Posts : 8
    windows 10
       #5

    Antilope said:
    Someone mentioned that they solved this problem by going to Settings, System Display, Notifications & actions. Turn OFF "Show me tips about windows".

    If that doesn't work, you can edit the Registry to disable "Runtime Broker", but this will also prevent Microsoft Store Apps from running.

    Runtime Broker is a service called Time Broker, which can be disabled through editing the registry.

    Right-click on the Start Menu Icon. Go to RUN and type regedit.exe and select OK.

    Find the following entry:

    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\TimeBroker] "Start"=dword:00000003

    Change the 3 to a 4.

    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\TimeBroker] "Start"=dword:00000004

    4 is Disabled, 3 is Manual and 2 is Automatic startup.

    Before editing, the original value was 3. Set to 4 to disable. Just change the 3 to a 4 through the MODIFY menu selection, exit regedit and reboot your system.
    This is brilliant. I am amazed that after being on the phone with MSFT help desk for 90 minutes they did not know this and only tried to reorganize my hard drive to solve this problem.
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  6. Posts : 438
    Win 10 pro 1803
       #6

    CAMSI said:
    This is brilliant. I am amazed that after being on the phone with MSFT help desk for 90 minutes they did not know this and only tried to reorganize my hard drive to solve this problem.
    yeah a random buddy had called 3 times to MS and to HP when she had installed win10 as an win7 upgrade - they said both, that only way to go back to that problem, was to re-install and re-upgrade. i solved the problem in 5minutes via teamviewer

    so, these guys are just trained to answer calls, not to really give support despite their titles
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  7. Posts : 8
    windows 10
       #7

    batlhilz said:
    yeah a random buddy had called 3 times to MS and to HP when she had installed win10 as an win7 upgrade - they said both, that only way to go back to that problem, was to re-install and re-upgrade. i solved the problem in 5minutes via teamviewer

    so, these guys are just trained to answer calls, not to really give support despite their titles
    Yes. Say, BTW, I did the upgrade from 7 to 10 on one of my machines. On that machine the connect button in the Action Center doesn't see my smart tv. The other machines see it as a projector. The 7 to 10 machine does not seem to have a projector category. Was wondering if anyone knows how to add that category to the device window.
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  8. Posts : 438
    Win 10 pro 1803
       #8

    check some of your video or photo files -> right click over -> use "cast to device" -> what does it show there?
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  9. Posts : 8
    windows 10
       #9

    Shows the Smart TY there and the photo is cast to the TV. Still can't mirror the laptop though.
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  10. Posts : 8
    windows 10
       #10

    CAMSI said:
    This is brilliant. I am amazed that after being on the phone with MSFT help desk for 90 minutes they did not know this and only tried to reorganize my hard drive to solve this problem.
    So, even though I changed the value to 4 in regedit, this Runtime Broker thing still shows up every so often stealing CPU resources. I even went back to make sure the value was still 4.
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