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ezst036 Hmm. We have all of these task managers and process lists, yet can anybody actually identify the processes which go into feeding all of the OS-level advertisements? I doubt Microsoft was nice enough to name it YourAnnoyingAdvertisements.exe. Reply
quorm Weird, it says all of my VRAM is being taken up by a datacenter two states over to help kids cheat on their history essays? Reply
palladin9479 Ehh not that great unless it can also break down the sub categories that are allocating blocks. Most VRAM is just a resource cache, so listing total allocated doesn't help. Reply
Lamarr the Strelok Nope. It took months to clean the crap out of W11.Adding more MS stuff would be a mistake for me.It's nice to work on Linux where you don't have to worry about what's creeping in the background. Reply
Edward Jazzhands Mark Tyson yet again is presenting AI generated recreations of existing tools as if this is the first time it's ever been done. Although this new tool does look quite good, the way Tyson writes about them is often infuriating because every time he reports on one of these AI generated tools, he doesn't mention or even seem aware of the fact that this is merely a slight improvement over the other tools that already do this. He presents it as if this is a brand new idea and nobody has done this before. It's the exact same thing that vibe coders do when they post their AI slop recreations on Reddit and then act dumbfounded when people call them out for not even realizing they just generated a copy of an existing project. Reply
splus I had to uninstall it – it uses too much CPU, not via its own process but via Windows main System process. It's good to use it for a short time just to see the VRAM usage, but not to leave it running in the background. Reply
Nikolay Mihaylov splus said: I had to uninstall it – it uses too much CPU, not via its own process but via Windows main System process. It's good to use it for a short time just to see the VRAM usage, but not to leave it running in the background. Wut? It's a single Python process that uses less than 1% of a single core. Reply
splus Nikolay Mihaylov said: Wut? It's a single Python process that uses less than 1% of a single core. Well, whatever that python process was doing had to do with or triggered the main Windows system process that was using at least 2 performance cores considerably. The moment I closed the cmd window with the GPU task manager it stopped. Reply
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