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last days i heard the laptop's fan kicking in, and i discovered a process called "WinGet COM Server" which is consuming CPU cycles. i uninstalled WinGet from apps, but it appearded once again. i think that windows update reintalled it.

curiosly i couldn't find posts about this issue

i'm using win 10 Pro 22H2 i don't want any processes consuming CPU as my laptop is an audio dedicated workstation

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    Have you tried to update WinGet, as that COM server, was replaced with something else awhile ago
    – Ramhound
    Commented Sep 12, 2023 at 5:54
  • I have the same issue since updating to Win10 22H2. I also can't end task on it.
    – spikey_richie
    Commented Sep 15, 2023 at 15:11
  • I had the same issue (fans kicking in loudly due to high cpu usage) and noticed the same process. I didn't install any programs myself, but when checking the "Apps & features" pages in Settings a few minutes later, I noticed that "Windows Package Manager Source (winget)" was just installed or updated. It is an app by Microsoft Corporation and seems to get installed/updated automatically.
    – wovano
    Commented Sep 19, 2023 at 5:38
  • Regarding your remark about not wanting any processes consuming CPU, I don't think you have much control about that in Windows. If it's really that important for you, you should consider Linux instead. In my experience, also other update (background) processes in Windows can be quite noisy. Alternatively, you could try to update all software reguarly at more convenient times, in the hope that they won't arbitrarily kick in at unwanted times :-/
    – wovano
    Commented Sep 19, 2023 at 5:41
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    @pu239, I didn't say it isn't a bug, I said you don't have control over the Windows updates. If you know how to disable Windows updates (so I would not have encountered this bug), please let me know. And I know Windows tries to do its stuff at "convenient times", but the problem is that Microsoft does not know what is convenient for me. If I don't touch my keyboard/mouse, Windows will assume I'm "away from keyboard" so it can do some background maintenance tasks. But sometimes I'm still behind my pc and are bothered by the fan noise it causes. I don't think there's much we can do about that.
    – wovano
    Commented Oct 2, 2023 at 5:33

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If you are not using WinGet, try killing the process in taskmgr, which will stop it using any CPU cycles at all. If it still appears, see if there is a WinGet task in Task Scheduler that restarts it (although maybe not if you have uninstalled it). If it keeps coming back you might have to write an automated batch file (automate it with Task Scheduler) that contains

@echo off
taskkill /f /im (WinGet COM Process Here)

You might be able to avoid it restarting, but I don't know how
Hope this helps

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    Instead of constantly stopping the process when it restarts, you might better avoid the "restartings".
    – Dominique
    Commented Dec 21, 2023 at 7:14
  • Any ideas on how...
    – e7eth
    Commented Dec 21, 2023 at 7:19
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    @e7eth - Supposedly this behavior was solved with an update to winget
    – Ramhound
    Commented Dec 21, 2023 at 13:13

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