r/microsoftsucks • u/Life_Technician5513 Victim of Windows • Nov 04 '25

Telemetry 🙏

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u/dschk Nov 04 '25

87% CPU… disgusting.

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u/torar9 Nov 05 '25

Back in a XP era we could do things with just a fraction of current cpu power.

The fact that stupid telemetry can eat 87% of modern cpu power is disgusting. I really wish Windows to be replaced by Linux one day.

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u/poughdrew Nov 04 '25

jUsT sEt ThIs ObScUrE rEgIsTrY kEy to fix it and other Microsoft bullshit.

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u/northfuge Nov 05 '25

I swear bro just one more registry key, thats all you need, just one more mate, on my mom, mate just uno mas.

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u/Ripped_Alleles Nov 04 '25

Malware Operating System 🤦🏽‍♂️

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u/HumonculusJaeger Nov 05 '25

I had one drive once talking 95% of the CPU and i dont use one drive.

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '25

it's fake

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u/DW_Hydro Nov 05 '25

Windows by it self always uses like 50% of CPU capacity on my brother's laptop.

I am very sure that a little older device could reach that 87%.

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u/p0358 Nov 04 '25

you'd wish, but I've also seen that first-handed at some point

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u/Life_Technician5513 Nov 04 '25 edited Nov 04 '25

Not really, sometimes my task manager gave out the wrong percentages

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u/Quinzal Nov 04 '25

Happened to me 2 days ago

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u/Budget-Individual845 Nov 09 '25

It might say its telemetry, its actually windows update...

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u/Life_Technician5513 Nov 09 '25

maybe, but that sucker came even without Internet.
(Don't take me for paranoid, but every time I said the word "Windows" into microphone, it appeared)

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u/T-VIRUS999 Nov 06 '25

There's no option to opt out of all telemetry, and unless you click "I agree" on the EULA (which says they can spy on you, plaster your OS with ads, and sell your data) the installation will NOT continue

You can't even install windows unless you click agree on the EULA

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u/Catslobber Nov 05 '25

God I hate Windows 11

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u/Some-Challenge8285 Nov 05 '25

That is a Windows 10 screenshot 😮

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u/Tommynwn Nov 07 '25

God i remember telemetry, even deleting it it spawns again after some time
a guy in a forum just created a reg entry that kills the process when it pops, so it gets killed instantly when it opens, no more hdd or cpu usage c:

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '25

Bro did you Order a Lamborghini over the Internet or something?

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u/lefty1117 Nov 04 '25

yeah if linux people will just get this anti-cheat stuff sorted, I'm out

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u/C_hersh45 Nov 05 '25

It's not on the Linux people. It's on the developers for these game companies.

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u/torar9 Nov 05 '25

My work laptop had an issue with windows indexer eating constantly 30 - 40% of cpu resources. Once I disabled indexer service my laptop was suddenly usable.

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u/InnominateHomosapien Nov 06 '25

I had to do this on our work laptops too. They have NVMe drives, so they don't need search indexing. With search indexing turned on, every time you touch a file, Windows feels the need to waste more CPU cycles indexing it. It's really bad on dev machines working with git, which can have hundreds if not thousands of files. The Core 7 Ultra 165U laptops we have are so much faster with search indexing disabled.