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Kari said:

A bit strange bug (or wrong setting by me?): Speech Runtime Executable task / process starts by itself every now and then, taking quite a lot CPU resources (CPU % jumps to 30 to 35%, returns to 3 to 8 % when this task ended from Task manager).

I use Cortana a lot, with speech, might be my own fault. Anyway, interesting behaviour.

This is driving me nuts, can't find out how to disable this, it's using a huge amount of CPU all the time:

I am a friend of Cortana and like how it responds to my "Hi Cortana", but if this is the price I don't want it, I can live without Cortana's voice features. However, disabling "Hi Cortana" does not help, this process will always be there (on my machine, anyway).

But, but, but... I don't have that speech service running although Cortana is alive but just like my GF, ain't talking to me right now.

On this laptop not even ending the task helps. In seconds it just restarts, constantly using 30% (plus minus 5%) of CPU.

Kari said:

On this laptop not even ending the task helps. In seconds it just restarts, constantly using 30% (plus minus 5%) of CPU.

I'm sure you've tried everything, including a bigger hammer....but what happens if you turn this off? Maybe with a restart? Guessing.....

f14tomcat said:

I'm sure you've tried everything, including a bigger hammer....but what happens if you turn this off? Maybe with a restart? Guessing.....

Typical me, I had forgotten something so obvious. Thanks for the tip. I need Skype to be able to use microphone, trying now if it works turning all other apps OFF, only enabling Skype.

Seems I'm not alone with this issue: Speech runtime Executable hung - Microsoft Community

martyfelker said:

At what point during your installation did you try it. I ususally try to sync as one of the first things I do. The glitch may be related to the "connect to a service" error when you first try to setup a Google account. Pure speculation.

However setting the time is the very first thing you before installing Windows Server's

I always set mine after update to time.nist.gov because I don't care to use Windows as it has given me issues in the past.

slicendice said:

For servers, indeed time is the first thing you setup or you will get into a lot of trouble. One server has a fixed "correct" time without any time sync from the internet and acts as a time server for the local network, the rest just follows that time. It does not even matter that the time is right, as long as everything has the same time stamp at the same moment of time (with a tiny error tolerance).

I haven't had any problems with time nor time sync on the preview/insider builds, ever.

A lot of us has issues a few builds back where we could not set the time server, it would error out. Some of us also could not get the sycn to work either, but that resolved it self for most of us around 14986, IIRC.

martyfelker said:

But other people have had time sync problems. Par for the course it seems. No wonder M$ is using millions of computers to beta test

Lol - well, we are on Preview builds, so I wouldn't expect everything to work 100% corectly anyway...

Kari said:

This is driving me nuts, can't find out how to disable this, it's using a huge amount of CPU all the time:

I am a friend of Cortana and like how it responds to my "Hi Cortana", but if this is the price I don't want it, I can live without Cortana's voice features. However, disabling "Hi Cortana" does not help, this process will always be there (on my machine, anyway).

Kari, I do not use Cortana at all, and am not seeing this issue. I can try to set up another VM and enable Cortana and voice and see if the issue replicates on my end, which I suspect it will...

CountMike said:

But, but, but... I don't have that speech service running although Cortana is alive but just like my GF, ain't talking to me right now.

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slicendice said:

Those who have had time syncing issues, have you also had issues with loading Google webpages? I am just asking, because I wonder if there is a relation between the two. I have had neither problems, ever.

Actually, I most certainly did, but I cannot vouch that both were occurring simultaneously or not.

slicendice said:

Those who have had time syncing issues, have you also had issues with loading Google webpages? I am just asking, because I wonder if there is a relation between the two. I have had neither problems, ever.

Can't see a relation, specially as time is synced automatically but wont do it manually. I can open Google from anywhere but time wouldn't sync manually.