bingdesktop.exe over 20% CPU

Firstly a message to RichardHaynes, not sure why you are running 2 security products together (Security Essentials and Norton Internet Security), this might not be an issue at present, but could certainly cause you to get false positives in future.

Here is my thoughts on this.

Bing Desktop was recently updated (Present digital signature of BingDesktop.exe (‎22 ‎March ‎2013 08:32:24))

So it looks to me that something in that build is unstable.  It's nothing to do with Browser or AntiVirus, it's a issue with the build.

Microsoft should re-release the old version, until they have fixed the present issue with this.

Same here.

I must say, Anil's Method 1 bewilders me. I cant see how that has any relevance but oh well....

I use IE10 as my sole browser so I would be surprised if one Microsoft product would affect another as they would definitely have tested for this combination??

It is not a virus related issue. I use Security Essentials so I must be safe right? ;) I actually use Norton Internet Security as well so defo not a virus issue.

This only happened after Bing Desktop updated itself. I must add that I was never informed of an update being available and I am unable to find any text that states that it will silently update. I think a formal complaint will shortly be in order :)

Killing Bing Desktop and restarting does nothing to solve the problem and it instantly jumps to 13% usage. Something is going wrong and Microsoft need to fix it.

My version is 1.2.115.0

Phew, I am not alone, glad to see that :)

My Bing Desktop version: 1.2.115.0

http://sdrv.ms/YxHhfD

Screenshot

Hi,

I have the same problem.

Since the weekend Bing Desktop (bingdesktop.exe) constantly uses around 25% of my CPU and the backgound picture does not refresh anymore.

It happens on both of my laptops, btw.

Bing version: 1.2.113.0

Would be great if this could be fixed...