Having the same issue, but even after turning off News and Interests in the taskbar. In task manager 'News and Interests > Search Application' is still running and hogging 97% of my RAM!
Feeds / Search application using all of the ram
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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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Anonymous
2022-08-24T08:52:21+00:00 -
Anonymous
2022-08-23T18:52:38+00:00 Same with me. Disabled and stopped "News and Interests"
The kicker is that when I restarted my computer the Intel graphics driver had gone corrupt! The Nvidia driver was fine though. I couldn't use my two monitors attached to my laptop until I got help from MS (which was good and efficient, I must say)
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Anonymous
2022-08-23T04:25:00+00:00 Same hapened to me and I just disabled that widget:
- Right click on "time and date" at lower right corner
- hover "News and interests"
- Pick "Turn off"
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Anonymous
2022-08-23T00:14:29+00:00 same thing just happened to me.
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Anonymous
2022-08-17T01:38:47+00:00 I have the same problem, this happened just a moment ago. I think this app comes from News and interest, it's on the taskbar and takes up 21GB of RAM. We should blame this file (C:\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.Windows.Search_xxxxxxxxxxxxx\SearchApp.exe) for its naughty behavior.
Is this issue taken seriously by Microsoft?
My PC's brief information:
Edition Windows 10 Pro Version 21H2 Installed on 11/22/2021 OS build 19044.1889 Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 120.2212.4180.0 Processor AMD Ryzen 5 5600G with Radeon Graphics 3.90 GHz Installed RAM 32.0 GB (29.9 GB usable) System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor Pen and touch No pen or touch input is available for this display =========================================================================================== OS Name: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro OS Version: 10.0.19044 N/A Build 19044 OS Manufacturer: Microsoft Corporation OS Configuration: Standalone Workstation OS Build Type: Multiprocessor Free System Type: x64-based PC Processor(s): 1 Processor(s) Installed. [01]: AMD64 Family 25 Model 80 Stepping 0 AuthenticAMD ~3901 Mhz BIOS Version: American Megatrends International, LLC. P1.90, 4/22/2021 Hotfix(s): 13 Hotfix(s) Installed. [01]: KB5015730 [02]: KB5003791 [03]: KB5012170 [04]: KB5016616 [05]: KB5006753 [06]: KB5007273 [07]: KB5011352 [08]: KB5011651 [09]: KB5014032 [10]: KB5014035 [11]: KB5014671 [12]: KB5015895 [13]: KB5005699