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
    2022-02-20T11:28:02+00:00

    Wow you are absolutely correct, after killing the process I tried hovering on the News and Feeds tab and again it started eating up all my ram until I killed the process again, I turned it off for now as a temporary solution and it hasn't happened again yet.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-02-20T12:54:18+00:00

    Same problem here - was playing Valheim on Steam and noticed it lagging horrifically, which is very out of character. Checked task manager and Feeds/Search was using >3,000MB RAM. Disabling News & Interests as described in this thread seems to have fixed the problem for now. (It's also quite useful in general, I used to get very annoyed with the massive tab opening each time I hovered over it by mistake :P )

    Hope Windows pushes a bug fix for this soon though, can see it causing problems for a lot of people.

    AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core Processor 3.60 GHz

    16GB RAM

    NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-02-20T12:59:02+00:00

    i recently dl that and now my ram ijs pinned all the time how do i unistall

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-02-20T14:00:53+00:00

    Thanks.

    Anyone affected WITHOUT Nvidia graphics here? Not blaming Nvidia (I have Nvidia too and do not expereience this issue), just looking for anything in common.

    MP

    Yes, older laptop with Intel HD Graphics. News and Interest feed starts to leak memory on Hover Over or click and never fully loads. This problem started with Search app randomly crashing, then developing into full memory leak and unintended system shutdown over the past week or so. Have to manually End Task and suspend News and Interests on the Task Bar to prevent recurrence. Not ideal, as I use this feature frequently.

    Device name DESKTOP-xxxxxx
    Installed RAM 8.00 GB
    System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor
    Pen and touch No pen or touch input is available for this display
    System Manufacturer Acer
    System Model Aspire E5-532
    Processor Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU N3150 @ 1.60GHz, 1601 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)
    BIOS Version/Date Insyde Corp. V1.23, 30/09/2016

    dition Windows 10 Pro
    Version 21H2
    Installed on ‎10/‎06/‎2020
    OS build 19044.1503
    Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 120.2212.4170.0

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    Even after applying KB5010415 the problem persists... My HP laptop on the January 2022 Cumulative update preview build does not have this issue.

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-02-20T14:10:00+00:00

    Did you try turning off the News and Interests?

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