In all fairness, and keeping the record straight, I still have 2 systems running Windows 10, and after the last MS downloaded update seem to run fairly well. Runtime broker on those 2 systems behaves...

The first and only install on my systems was from the latest distro; 2 of my systems seem to be running fairly well, one desktop, one Lenovo laptop. (Both running Windows 10 Home)After the last...

While this adds credence to the fact that this is truly an issue, Even the Microsoft response is incomplete. To quote their page:

"•Runtime Broker is a Windows process in Task Manager that helps...

shinitaru
I totally get that. Feeling the heat coming out of the vent on the laptops, and the case fan on the desktop is evidence that more is going on than need be. In the mean time, I have work to...

shinitaru
I've thought of that, and may try it on one machine, but to me that's akin to a doctor treating the symptom and not the disease. I'd like to know more about the what how and why, and...

After messing with this for days, disabling everything suggested, (and more) on 3 different machines this thief still keeps stealing CPU time and memory. If a system sets idle for about an hour, task...

There is a whole lot more to RuntimeBroker than dealing with Notifications. Cruise on over to What is RuntimeBroker.exe and Why is it Running? to see why it is not just a useless function, especially...

Here's a quote from another thread that might shed some light:

Quote Originally Posted by Mystere View Post

As you can see from this article:

What is RuntimeBroker.exe and Why is it...

Great information, BUT......Why should it have such a high priority that ..for example in my experience it used 87% of cpu time, to the point that the system was almost frozen? Is there a way to...

I finally completed 3 updates to Windows 10. 2 with Win10 home (one desktop 1 laptop) the last Win10 Pro on another Lenovo laptop. Each with their own set of issues. I came across the issue where the...