HELP - System and compressed memory constantly at 35% CPU

Hi,

I an=m having an issue with System and compressed memory constantly using at 35% CPU, resulting in the fans on my laptop running all the time and being very noisy.

I have read:

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and i have also tried adjusting the pagefile from system managed to Initial 2Gb and Maximum 8Gb, and disabling sleep.

But nothing i do seems to stop this usage, some people seem to report that it goes away after 30 minutes or so, or rebooting a few times seems to sort it out, but nothing seems to be working in my case!!!

I am running a genuine copy of windows 10 Pro

I have this problem too and it's driving me nuts. Its draining the battery quite quickly when the laptop should be idle.

Question: Are you using an SSD? I'm wondering if that's related to my issue.

Do you have Spotify installed and running on your system? Lately I have been having this same issue ever since doing the fall update of Windows 10. I have found that this usually occurs when Spotify have been open for a few hours then it can suddenly start to use high cpu like 25% and when that happens also the system and compressed memory process also can be using high CPU up to 30%. If I close Spotify then this process returns to normal CPU use within a few minutes.

Why Spotify is causing this issue I do not know! I have had high CPU usage issues with iTunes ever since version 11 and also in Windows 8.1. But now since the fall update of Windows 10 I am starting to have the same issue even in Spotify. The thing they have in common are that they are both music players. Very strange this...

I am having the same issue.

I reformatted and reinstalled Windows 10 again to get off insider builds about a month ago.

Have tried various "fixes" I found, from disabling the page file, to increasing it, to uninstalling the realtek sound drivers.

It's been doing this since when I reformatted but I installed everything I use on a regular basis that day as well so I can't really track down what program it is that is causing it if it's not just an OS issue.

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