what is runtime broker, and why does it use so much memory?

This did not work for me.  Still searching for a solution.  It's burning up the hard drive!

This thread was started 3 years ago today, meaning it's now moving into its 4th year.

Way to be on top of it Microsoft!!!!  No problems before Win10.

The energy consumption waste worldwide this is creating is unmeasurable! 

PATHETIC!

I've posted this on another similar thread but as it is now nearly a week since I implemented it and it has totally solved the runtime broker problem for me, I thought I would post it here as well.

I found many of the suggestions here worked - but only briefly.  The problem always returned.

The one solution that has worked for me, permanently, is to disable Windows Search.  I realise Microsoft will not be encouraging this option but it does seem to solve the Runtime broker problem.

Right click on the Start button, select 'Run', enter 'services.msc' and the just disable 'Windows Search' from the menu.

Had the same issue with Runtime Broker hogging the resources on my main PC, sometimes up to 5GB of memory!

Found a fix on Neowin.net (https://goo.gl/wqs5qH) that has solved this issue on all my Windows 10 systems.

In Registry Editor, navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\TimeBroker.

Select the Start value in the right-hand pane and set its value to 4.

Made this change over three weeks ago, and all systems are running great. Runtime Broker now releases memory when any programs or apps it touches are closed. Highest memory usage since fix has been about 4 to 5MB.

It says that if I do that, another service called "Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service" will also stop. I don't know what this is, but I do like to listen to BNN videos. I have tried turning off search indexer under Processes in Task Manager, but it just turns itself back on. What am I losing if I turn it off and lose this Media thingy? Am on Win8.1, IE11 or other browsers, Vipre antivirus ware.

I would suggest returning to your more reliable OS.

Did you ever have an OS with so many problems?

Maybe before the year is over they will have fixed all the problems.

I encountered my Money app needed a registry fix. The runtime broker doesn't even exist in my OS 8.1. Windows photo viewer didn't work right.

It would not play in any other than name order in the viewer or the slideshow.

I found Calendar not installed; I found Themes in the Solitaire also awaiting a future installation. I had to re letter the plug in drive according to instructions obtained again with an internet search after 10 changed it.

In addition, I find that since they put in an update apparently the computer did not go into standby automatically, for 3 days before I restored 8.1. The start menu tiles does not have an uninstall option on them nor a find in file.

Edge has a really nice text only option for news files but it has less functions then Explorer otherwise.

The text to speech voices are missing the British woman's voice in the 10 upgrade.

Cortana is a nice twist on a search application. It has voice recognition of a sort but I usually am typing it out anyway.

The email handler MAIL like on 8.1 has few functions.

The Windows Live Mail download is still much more practical.

These problems should have been foreseen and corrected before the upgrade was launched not left to be fixed from online suggestions by users and by IT people in the institutions that are making the upgrade.

So I believe. 

Kudos to Microsoft for at least making the trip back easy.