Disabling Windows Compatability Telemetry

The task manager showed 43 pages of listings of update tasks with a windows network connection, but you are correct that they all had the same PID.

Before this, the computer was literally choked out with CompatTelRunner.exe running, which I referred to as "more than one thousand" as they were averaging about 32K bytes each  and collectively the load on the hard drive was 100%.  But I suppose it was quite a few less than that.  

Also, this is my Windows 10 computer, forgot I switched it with a different one.  

I had turned off the windows 10 update service, by configuring the service to disabled, and the group policy was not set, but it somehow turned itself back on.

The 43 pages refers to the image.  I paged down 43 times to get to the end.  This was when things were a bit better, so I was able to do this.

My computer is choking up with this application, with literally thousands of copies running at the same time. This is causing nearly 100% disk usage on my computer, which is causing it to have yet other problems.

Perhaps a virus is attacking through this app?

There also appears to be more than a thousand software distribution downloads through that many network services.  I am using windows 2012 server.

There's no way to tell if you have a virus from just a description, but having many copies is strange. On my computer and other reports I've seen, it's just one process. 

I don't understand what you mean by "There also appears to be more than a thousand software distribution downloads through that many network services." Does this have to do with Windows Telemetry or is it a jab at the annoyances of Windows in general?

My computer is choking up with this application, with literally thousands of copies running at the same time. This is causing nearly 100% disk usage on my computer, which is causing it to have yet other problems.

Perhaps a virus is attacking through this app?

There also appears to be more than a thousand software distribution downloads through that many network services.  I am using windows 2012 server.

Microsoft has tasks that run periodically and stuff from the disk.  It is all well and fine on a new computer.  However, for those of us that have a big disk and lots of programs installed it is a real problem.  This is amature hour at Microsoft.  Basically, they are turning our computers into useless junk through their negligence.

Yes, there is. You might find this SuperUser question helpful: http://superuser.com/q/69783. But it could be as simple as using task scheduler to run the following command every minute or so as admin:

taskkill /F /IM CompatTelRunner.exe

I'm not sure if that is the right process name though.