bingdesktop.exe over 20% CPU

Anonymous
2013-04-02T09:16:53+00:00

Hello,

Bing Desktop (bingdesktop.exe) constantly uses more than 20% of my CPU. 

I'm running W7 on an i7 quad-core with 8GB,

Does anyone know how to fix this?

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Anonymous
2013-04-06T11:42:40+00:00

Hi,

I found a solution: uninstall and reinstall! It works perfectly now: CPU used = 0% and the background picture is correctly refreshed.

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-04-08T21:34:59+00:00

    @Milton David Grimshaw, I use two prducts for a reason.

    My Norton as a primary AV whichs scans all my attached drives and then both use their respective Auto-Protect. I also have Spybot S&D which is ran on demand. Had this set-up since 2009 when I was a beta-tester of MSSE.

    Since MSSE doesnt do any scans itself (its too slow and inefficient), neither package has ever presented false positives. The doubling up on the Auto-Protect is benficial since both products are likely to cover each others faults.

    Its a set-up I use on all computers I come across and it has turned people who turn their machine a ticking time bomb into safe havens as no one has ever reported virus issues since. And thats including my grandma!

    I also have three AV running on my server, two lightweight on-demand scanners and AVG Free. Again, no issues in the 6 years thats been running :)

    Ive set a process watch up which monitors Bing Desktop's CPU and kills it if it breaches 10% for more than 30 seconds. Its a temp solution until Microsoft ACKNOWLEDGE the issue and then fix it :)

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-10-10T04:39:31+00:00

    This exact same bug has returned with v1.3.174.0

    On many computers I have seen so not an isolated case.

    (25% CPU use and not updating anymore).

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-10-10T06:40:53+00:00

    This exact same bug has returned with v1.3.174.0

    On many computers I have seen so not an isolated case.

    (25% CPU use and not updating anymore).

    Hi,

    Try uninstall and reinstall Bing desktop! It works perfectly now: CPU used = 0% and the background picture is correctly refreshed.

    Regards

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-04-02T11:53:33+00:00

    Exactly a year after the first post in this thread, I'm experiencing exactly the same problem. I have Bing desktop installed on three different PCs and on all of them as of last weekend, the client is taking more than 30% or even 40% CPU and the wallpaper do not change anymore.

    Now I have a weird theory. The only thing that last year problem and this year problem have in common is that they occurred on the weekend of switching from standard time to summer time.

    Of course the previous post on October 10th may seem to disprove my theory, unless that week in October was when you switched back from summer to standard time?

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