bingdesktop.exe over 20% CPU

Anonymous

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

Hi,

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

Regards

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Anonymous

2014-04-02T13:06:48+00:00

It actually makes sense. Mine stopped working on both, PC and laptop last Saturday night too. That was the night we've changed time in UK.
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Anonymous

2014-04-02T13:27:19+00:00

Yes, it looks like you are right.

I don't see 30 or 40% but a constant rate of 12% which still is way to high for an idle background app.
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Anonymous

2014-04-02T14:05:41+00:00

I was seeing varying percentages on the different computers. On one it was using about 15% on the other two was moving between 30% and more than 40%.

For what is worth, removing and reinstalling did fix the problem for me on all devices.
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Anonymous

2014-04-02T19:00:54+00:00

Same Problem here on 3 different computers. CPU usage is between 20 and 30%. The problem occurs last weekend with the summer time change. If you turn off the automatic change to summer time (clock is set 1 hour back) and start Bing Desktop, it changes the wallpaper and has a normal CPU usage. If you turn the automatic change on again, it has again the high CPU usage.
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