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0 pointsjeffbee5y ago0 comments

There's something wrong with your PC because nobody will be able to reproduce this result.

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Opened Chrome, opened gmail and youtube, nonstop 25% CPU usage, fans ramped to 4000+RPM, closed chrome, 3% with Firefox with some simple tabs. The culprit seems to be chrome's "software_reporter_tool.exe". It has chewed up 3 minutes of CPU and counting. It seems to have some well-multithreaded elements, it's added 12 seconds of CPU time in 1 second occasionally.

JTbane5y ago

That's Chrome scanning your computer for malware like toolbars and such.

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hnuser1234565y ago

JTbane5y ago

That's Chrome scanning your computer for malware like toolbars and such.

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