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Processes causing high CPU use in Windows 10
Hello.
I had mentioned in an earlier post that since I upgraded a laptop to Windows 10, the CPU fan kept running on high all the time. I found out the cause of the problem were these two background processes:
From Microsoft Background Task Host - backgroundTaskHost.exe
From Microsoft Download/Upload Host - BackgroundTransferHost.exe
They are both located in the C:\Windows\System32 folder and whenever they run, which happens at seemingly random times, CPU utilization goes up to 60 or even 80%.
Does anybody know what these processes are for, or how to disable them to prevent them from running?
Thank you.