Windows 10 delivery optimisation cpu usage

[keyser van someone]

I think this was related to a fairly large Windows Update but before and after I installed this my cpu usage on 6 threads was ~30% to 60% with nothing running, except Process Explorer (and the 176 other windows processes/services). It took a full shutdown and another 30 mins of waiting for it to finally stop and go back to normal. I wouldn't mind if Windows was busy doing something, just tell me!

Recently playing games felt a bit laggy and I think this was why, except non of the cpu cores/threads were over 80% when gaming, so it was weird. I'm tempted to have a separate gaming and non-gaming PC at this rate.

 

[Rroff]

One of my bigger complaints about Windows 10/11 and the way they give you no visibility as to what is going on let alone control over it. While it doesn't happen that often it is still far too often and when you run multiple Windows 10/11 systems and actually want to get on and do things it is a pain in the rear.

I find it not unusual for these processes to become bugged out, etc. without the ability to take any kind of control over them short of shutting down the system and hoping that solves it and/or having to mess about with DOS/Powershell commands to manually reset whatever part of the system is flaking out.

 

[keyser van someone]

I might run the debloater powershell script again. I installed xbox stuff again recently for Game Pass and made the mistake of opening the MS Store which then tried to download and install everything missing again, I cancelled all that though.

Edge opened because I made the mistake of clicking on some 'more info' link in settings, closed Edge and then the 5 Edge processes continued to remain running so I ended those manually.

While this was happening I was wondering if I'd have to do a fresh install of Windows, I shouldn't really have to as I don't install anything outside of the apps I trust, which isn't many.

The other complaint I have is Windows Update says update pending, so I think not right now, click pause updates, which apparently gives me a week. But then when I unpause it to start all over and downloads them all again. That's not paused then is it, thats called stop

But yeah this was the first time Windows was doing some mysterious stuff (update clean up I guess) stopping me from playing a game until it was done.

 

[hornetstinger]

Just disable windows delivery optimisation?

 

[Rroff]

Just disable windows delivery optimisation?

Lot more than that goes on in the background from memory scanning, anti-malware, compatibility telemetry, post-update optimisation as well as preparation for next update(s), etc. etc. some of this is only visible as high CPU usage on the system task and trying to figure it out from the function calls on the stack.

 

[Django x2]

That isn't what delivery optimisation is. Delivery optimisation is a peer to peer mechanism for offloading large updates throughout a network, to devices on the same subnet, nothing more.