Feeds / Search application using all of the ram

Anonymous
2022-02-17T10:44:32+00:00

I noticed that the PC started running slow today and opened task manager to see that System, Feeds (Search application) is using CPU and Disk quite heavily and as much ram that it can to pin it to 100%.

Is anyone else experiencing this behavior?

Update: Windows crashed and i restarted, same application started to ramp up again so i ended it.

Looking into events now.

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-03-10T12:22:55+00:00

    I had this exact same thing happen to me two days ago. My computer screens went black and I was experiencing some heavy lag while running a Valheim with a friend, my PC usually handles it extremely well. I figured it was something graphically so I restarted the game and apparently my computer stopped recognizing my mic. I'd been muted for half of the play session without realizing it. Restarting my computer was an easy fix. However it happened again so I decided to do some checking and found out feeds was taking up about 80% of my Ram. I noticed this starting to happen after I updated my Nivida drivers, I haven't downloaded anything else recently.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-03-10T07:29:05+00:00

    I literally just had this happen today. Seems I had it a bit worse than most of you, my monitors went black for a bit, windows explorer stopped functioning, and after I ended the "feeds" task my computer forgot I had a microphone and I had to restart Discord just to be able to interact with it. Seems it not only eats all of the available ram but also the ram that the rest of your computer is using. After a full restart everything seems fine for now except for an odd instance of re-opening my browser tabs (about 10 tabs) using 100% of my Ryzen 3900x for a few seconds.

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-03-10T05:11:54+00:00

    Ending the SearchApp task has quietened everything down for now - fingers crossed but I'm not feeling too optimistic!

    I've checked my updates too, only one thing updated today (related to Defender Antivirus) and the same cumulative update as you JimmahChongah ( KB5010342) yesterday. Which includes something about the News and Interests feed - is that what Feeds is, which includes the problematic SearchApp? I have no idea with this stuff.

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    I am in the same situation as you and I also closed the process in the task manager... has it happened again to anyone?

    My concern is that it is a virus but being from Microsoft nothing will tell

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-03-08T16:53:04+00:00

    My chrome crashed and I opened up my Task Manager and there is it. Feed using 100% of my ram and 100% of my disk.

    My specs are,

    AMD Ryzen 5600G

    16GB RAM

    500GB SAMSUNG 970 EVO plus NVME SSD

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-03-01T01:46:23+00:00

    secondly, to be specific to your question, system32 contains all the windows system files. when you open taskbar and right click on a process or service, you can "open file location" which led me to the feeds exe in system 32. as for registry, run regedit and open the find function and type "feeds". delete, then find next, then delete etc. but as i said it was all reinstalled by windows upon a sequencial update.

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