Hello ...
I had a very unusual performance problem a few days ago. Running MS Win11 Pro Version 10.0.22631 with ThrottleStop 9.4 ("TS"). (Sorry haven't upgraded in a while.)
Basically my system got so sluggish I had to crash it. My first thoughts were to blame MS after another WinUpdate. But as I went ahead and started looking for the culprit (WinUpdate, AntiMalwareBytes, etc.) here's what I came across.
I like having the TS icon on the taskbar area, but it was misbehaving. Sometimes it was there, sometimes not -- in that case it would still appear in the System Tray. In the past it was consistently present on the task bar ... so a WinUpdate may have added to the issue.
I right-clicked on the task bar and chose "Taskbar settings" ... this takes you to "Personalization > Taskbar". Next, click on "Other system tray icons". And to my surprise there were *MULTIPLE* occurrences -- I guess more than a dozen or so -- of "ThrottleStop", sometimes with a red, sometimes with a green icon. The supermajority of the entries were in the OFF state. I tried to toggle a bunch to get the icon to show in the taskbar to no avail.
Next I went out on a limb with "regedit" ... I found 155 folder entries under "Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\NotifyIconSettings" containing "ExecutablePath" of "{sid}\ThrottleStop\ThrottleStop.exe"
It took a while ... but I deleted 154 of them, then rebooted. The performance issue was "cured" ... but ...
The entries in the Registry are still slowly accumulating again. Not sure what's doing it. Also, the TS icon is only in the system tray now, not the task bar anymore.
I believe the latest TS version is 9.7. I haven't had time to see if this fixes the issue, but wanted to report this apparent bug ...
Q1: So ... is this a known bug ?
Q2: Is it fixed in TS 9.7 ?
Q3: What's causing the accumulation of Registry entries ? Or ... what could prevent it ?
Cheers.
I had a very unusual performance problem a few days ago. Running MS Win11 Pro Version 10.0.22631 with ThrottleStop 9.4 ("TS"). (Sorry haven't upgraded in a while.)
Basically my system got so sluggish I had to crash it. My first thoughts were to blame MS after another WinUpdate. But as I went ahead and started looking for the culprit (WinUpdate, AntiMalwareBytes, etc.) here's what I came across.
I like having the TS icon on the taskbar area, but it was misbehaving. Sometimes it was there, sometimes not -- in that case it would still appear in the System Tray. In the past it was consistently present on the task bar ... so a WinUpdate may have added to the issue.
I right-clicked on the task bar and chose "Taskbar settings" ... this takes you to "Personalization > Taskbar". Next, click on "Other system tray icons". And to my surprise there were *MULTIPLE* occurrences -- I guess more than a dozen or so -- of "ThrottleStop", sometimes with a red, sometimes with a green icon. The supermajority of the entries were in the OFF state. I tried to toggle a bunch to get the icon to show in the taskbar to no avail.
Next I went out on a limb with "regedit" ... I found 155 folder entries under "Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\NotifyIconSettings" containing "ExecutablePath" of "{sid}\ThrottleStop\ThrottleStop.exe"
It took a while ... but I deleted 154 of them, then rebooted. The performance issue was "cured" ... but ...
The entries in the Registry are still slowly accumulating again. Not sure what's doing it. Also, the TS icon is only in the system tray now, not the task bar anymore.
I believe the latest TS version is 9.7. I haven't had time to see if this fixes the issue, but wanted to report this apparent bug ...
Q1: So ... is this a known bug ?
Q2: Is it fixed in TS 9.7 ?
Q3: What's causing the accumulation of Registry entries ? Or ... what could prevent it ?
Cheers.
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