{"id":458,"date":"2009-03-26T16:52:35","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T16:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andyparkes.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/03\/26\/placing-blame-correctly\/"},"modified":"2009-03-26T16:52:35","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T16:52:35","slug":"placing-blame-correctly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andyparkes.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/03\/26\/placing-blame-correctly\/","title":{"rendered":"Placing Blame Correctly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can\u2019t believe how long it\u2019s been since my last blog post! I\u2019ve really no idea where the days are going at the moment<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve had a few problems with my work PC recently. It becomes very unresponsive and gets progressively worse during the day<\/p>\n<p>I fired up the trusty task manger and the CPU was at 100% usage<\/p>\n<p>I switched to the Processes tab and sorted the list so i could see which process was causing the problem<\/p>\n<p>At the top of the list were various Trend services (We use Worry Free Business Security \u2013 I&#8217;m not a fan of the product name to be honest!)<\/p>\n<p>When i stopped the Trend client the CPU usage went down and back up when i started it again<\/p>\n<p>I trawled various online resources to see if could get to the bottom of it with very little luck<\/p>\n<p>I was planning on submitting a support case with Trend but decided to have one last go myself<\/p>\n<p>This time i looked a bit closer at the process list a saw multiple entries for TASKENG.EXE<\/p>\n<p>The total process count was at 2675 \u2013 that couldn\u2019t be right<\/p>\n<p>I knew that TASKENG is the Vista task scheduler so had a look in there<\/p>\n<p>Turns out this is a pretty common problem and it\u2019s simple to fix (it\u2019s in various different blog posts and forums)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Go to the start menu.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Type <em>task scheduler<\/em> and press enter.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Press continue on the UAC prompt.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>In the left pane of task scheduler, right-click on <strong>Task Scheduler Library<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>In the view submenu, make sure the <strong>Show Hidden Tasks<\/strong> option is selected.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The hidden task that is likely at fault has a name that starts with User_Feed_Synchronization.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Select the scheduled task<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>To verify that this task is creating all the taskeng.exe processes, select the History tab in the middle pane near the middle of the screen.&#160; If you expand out the Level and Date and Time Columns, you should see errors and that are about 5 minutes apart.&#160; If that&#8217;s the case, then this task is the problem.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Right click the task and select <strong>Disable.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/andyparkes.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/image1.png\" rel=\"lightview\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"346\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/andyparkes.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/image-thumb1.png\" width=\"563\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Obviously this will stop your RSS feeds from updating (the Windows list \u2013 this has nothing to do with Outlook 2007)<\/p>\n<p>If you do want to use your RSS feed list you can also try deleting the task and then from an elevated command prompt enter<\/p>\n<p><strong>msfeedssync enable<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This will re-create the task for you if the problem with causing by the task being corrupt<\/p>\n<p>Once I&#8217;d deleted the task i used<\/p>\n<p><strong>TASKKILL \/IM TASKENG.EXE \/F<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This killed off all the extra processes that had been created. 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