Hi Arthur
That sedlauncher.exe file is part of Windows 10 update KB4023057 for Windows 10 which is designed to improve the speed of Windows Update Service components in your machine
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what is sedlauncher.exe
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Hi Arthur
That sedlauncher.exe file is part of Windows 10 update KB4023057 for Windows 10 which is designed to improve the speed of Windows Update Service components in your machine
Hey, you know what else uses practically all of your resources without even notifying you, let alone asking you? Basically everything else in Windows 10. Not saying that you shouldn't delete it, just saying that just because it uses a ton of resources doesn't mean its malware of some sort. Still, check just to be safe whenever you see something you don't recognize that's doing that.
Now, What is the Remedy for it? Can we end those tasks?
Some can be safely killed in task manager or performance monitor. Disabling the tasks otherwise is rather pointless as Windows Update reenables them every week or so. That's why it needs to be dealt with on MS side, but they're the ones behind those spyware, so...
Looks like everything Microsoft bring out makes your computer work worst it just taking more ram or taxing your hard drive and the sad part is that you being force to take the updates as they call it. I wish companies would drop there prices on higher end computers and laptops so I can afford on that Microsoft and tax with there updates and I wouldn't feel it with my 6gb of ram and a quad core 2ghz processor