Oh, How I Wish…
Don’t you just love it when you have to sit and watch helplessly while megabytes tick off, eating your gigabytes of data away when you have done nothing to initiate such action.
Something is updating while you don’t have a clue what application is doing the damage. Somewhere amongst the hundred applications on your PC there is one where you had slipped up and forgotten to disable automatic updates. And all you can do is to terminate the connection knowing fully well that it will just restart again when next time you connect to the internet, costing you even more in data.
There should be a law that all applications must install with automatic updates disabled so the user can decide which pieces of software he wants to keep up to date. And the same law should state that updating applications should identify themselves prior to doing so.It should also tell you the exact nature of the update instead of vague hints about security issues.
I wish somebody would write an application to identify the processes chowing your data away and also those that initiated them. Preferably with the option to kill such processes and delete the offenders if needed.
Surely with all the available software on the WWW there must be at least one that can do it but I have not come across it yet.
Am I the only one with such problems? Can somebody help? There must be something to stop this racket of data wastage.
A great day to all of ya! And relax it is Friday.
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Can it end processes and/or tell you which programs started the process?
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Hans, I've had process explorer for years & had no such problems with it
I have just downloaded it and had a quick glimpse at it. Will look at at properly later. At first looks it does not appear to be what I'm looking for.
What I'm looking for is something that will identify the process using the internet connection and the (chain of) processes that initiated it. I want to get to the root of the problem.
But thanks just the same. I will look at it later. It may just be what I want.
Maybe if you know of such a program you can point me in a direction. I cannot use my desktop computer for it grabs my data as I log on to internet. I will deal with the add-ons. Internet is my weak suit and I need something to fix my problem. I really don't feel like reloading the machine.
sorry, I'm just passing through
you have a great weekend too.
I managed to find the culprit by killing non-essential processes. It was MS Security Essentials. I don't know why I installed it. I don't need it.
The machine in question runs Windows 7 and as you said, it may not work there. Luckily the problem has been sorted out now. I will look for PE and test it. This computer runs XP and I may well use it.
There is an app. For that!. . .