rhodos
Prominent Member
Old news I am sure, but this caught me out this morning...........
I was just checking my PCs network consumption earlier today, using task manager ===> performance monitor ===> networks.
- So whilst there I went to the advanced options where I noted that I had set a 20Mb/s limit on downloads for Windows..... but I wasn't doing any windows downloads, I had just checked..... and even the Microsoft/Xbox games app was completely closed, it wan't minised to my task bar/icon. Nothing......
- So confused and thinking it a waste of time, but keen to get to to the bottom of it, I opened the Xbox app anyway and gues what,,,, it had kicked off a major Halo update download completely silently - no warning, nothing in the task bar, nothing!!! So I killed it and the network usage returned to zero. And then I uninstalled Halo in disgust.
So just a warning. You may think you've killed off all auto downloads (which I hate), but Windows finds a way.
Wouldn't it be good if you could say "no automatic, background downloads, no matter what, except during these times......" And for that to apply to every application on your PC.
I was just checking my PCs network consumption earlier today, using task manager ===> performance monitor ===> networks.
- To my surprise my PC was consuming 20Mb/s bandwidth.
- I wasn't downloading anything manually, no browsers open, no torrent clients open
- I had none of my game launchers open, not xbox, not steam, not Ubi, not EA, not Meta, nothing
- Nothing at all in the taskbar and nothing I could see in task manager
- I went to windows update and nothing there either, no downloads, no updates and even on refreshing a check still nothing to be updated
- So whilst there I went to the advanced options where I noted that I had set a 20Mb/s limit on downloads for Windows..... but I wasn't doing any windows downloads, I had just checked..... and even the Microsoft/Xbox games app was completely closed, it wan't minised to my task bar/icon. Nothing......
- So confused and thinking it a waste of time, but keen to get to to the bottom of it, I opened the Xbox app anyway and gues what,,,, it had kicked off a major Halo update download completely silently - no warning, nothing in the task bar, nothing!!! So I killed it and the network usage returned to zero. And then I uninstalled Halo in disgust.
So just a warning. You may think you've killed off all auto downloads (which I hate), but Windows finds a way.
Wouldn't it be good if you could say "no automatic, background downloads, no matter what, except during these times......" And for that to apply to every application on your PC.