Fall Creators Update Resulting in High CPU Use By Service Host

Anonymous
2017-10-18T03:41:50+00:00

Hi,

After updating to the new version, I am seeing high CPU use from two processes:

Any ideas on how to make them not use a lot of CPU so that my laptop cools down and the fan stops blowing?

Windows for home | Windows 10 | Performance and system failures

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Anonymous
2017-11-01T23:47:18+00:00

Hi all, 

Had the same problem myself and found the solution which is quite simple :

Go to settings -> update & security -> Windows Defender -> Open Windows Defender -> Firewall & Network protection

Then you need to disable the firewall for all the types of networks

once that's done click on restore settings

That should do the trick and you're cpu usage should return to normal.

Hope it helps, it did for me.

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  1. Anonymous
    2017-10-22T15:54:37+00:00

    The only problem with this fix, is if the PC reboots; the problem reappears, ICS does NOT stay disabled.  for whatever reason it comes back on and the CPU goes back to racing at 30% to 60%... so partial fix only.

    I hope Microsoft will fix soon...

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-10-22T16:10:23+00:00

    The only problem with this fix, is if the PC reboots; the problem reappears, ICS does NOT stay disabled.  for whatever reason it comes back on and the CPU goes back to racing at 30% to 60%... so partial fix only.

    I hope Microsoft will fix soon...

    Sure do hope they get it fixed too.  I can see no changes with the Fall Creators Update which are useful for me, yet here we are again, trying to find workarounds for Microsoft's errors.

    I saw the problem return after restarting when I just killed/stopped the task using the Task Manager, but once I stopped/disabled the ICS service (via Windows Administrative Tools/Services), ICS has not run again.  I'll try to attach a screen capture with the Services status tab (via msconfig - System Configuration) and Task Manager both showing.  I've restarted my computer five or six times (mostly testing this fix) and ICS still shows that it was disabled on 10/20/2017 at 4:37PM.  Just did another restart prior to replying and it's still fine. 

    I may just be lucky though, the problem never occurred in the first place on my wife's Dell desktop sitting a few feet to my right.  This one is 64-bit Windows 10 Home and her's is 32-bit Windows 10 Home.  My laptop is 32-bit Windows 10 Professional if any of that makes any difference.

    EDIT:  Checked and the ICS service was NOT running on either the laptop PC or my wife's computer although I hadn't stopped it on either one after the Fall Creator's Update - guess that was the reason that neither of those computers had the high CPU usage problem.

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-10-24T15:25:08+00:00

    go to services and disable internet connection sharing ..... this is work for me thanks

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-10-28T17:03:58+00:00

    For me it looks like Internet Connection Sharing is stuck on a status of Starting.  If I right click on it in Services, the Stop option is grayed out.

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