IS IT BAD IF…?

A Windows user asked this question, and Dr. Boli thought he would refer it to the Windows experts among his readers:

Windows Modules Installer Worker, Windows Problem Reporting, Windows Problem Reporting, Windows Problem Reporting.

Is it bad if the top tasks in the Task Manager, sorted by “total disk utilization across all physical drives,” look like this? We can see that there are three instances of Windows Problem Reporting running at once and wearing down the drive quite a bit, while the most disk-hungry process is Windows Modules Installer Worker, which we suppose is installing another instance of Windows Problem Reporting.

Dr. Boli’s assumption was that this was just how Windows works. Perhaps it is reporting the useful diagnostic information that the computer is running Windows, which it correctly identifies as a problem. But someone who knows Windows better might be able to give us a more nuanced answer.

Comments

  1. KevinT says:

    I find it useful to occasionally “clean up” my PC’s memory and drive gremlins by entering, at the CMD prompt:
    shutdown /s

  2. RepubAnon says:

    One of my favorite jokes:
    The Goodyear Blimp was cruising the Seattle area when a thick fog obscured everything. Suddenly, the blimp’s navigation system failed leaving them with no idea how to navigate back to their home port. All they had was an old magnetic compass.

    The pilot slowly lowered their altitude – until they saw a man standing on the roof of an office building. The pilot opened a window and shouted “We’re lost, where are we?”

    The man answered back: “You’re in a blimp!”

    The pilot said “Thank you!”, glanced at the paper map and the compass, chose a heading, and successfully navigated back to his home base.

    The passengers were astonished. “How did you do that?” one asked.

    “Well, the answer I received was technically correct but completely useless, so I knew I was over Microsoft headquarters.”

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