Recent content by Bobthebass

I periodically get problems with Service Host Local System (13) hogging CPU. It starts, takes 25 - 30% of CPU and never stops. I think the problem is Windows Update, as I can 'cure' the problem when it occurs by either stopping or restarting the Windows Update service. My current Windows...

Ah - I do have HP Support on the PC. That probably explains it. But it just seems a bit strange that it hasn't done this in 2,5 years before. Although I have a vague recollection that HP Support maybe had an update in the last couple of months. And in my case, Z is not disappearing on...

I don't recall installing anything.

Why has it suddenly appeared as Z? And can I hide it again?

Sometime in the last few days, a new drive seems to have appeared in This PC. The new drive is Local Disk (Z: ) and is 256 MB in size (162 free). I do not have access to the drive. The drive does NOT appear in Disk Management. Googling suggested it might be a mapped temp folder, but SUBST...

Today Skype opened itself and updated itself whilst I was AFK. I have it set to manual update only, plus at the time Skype wasn't even running. Additionally the SkypeUpdate service in Task Manager is also stopped. This also happened in my partner's Win 7 machine, and looking at the Skype...