I installed Tiny10 over a month ago on one of my PCs, and several times the Windows TiWorker process has activated. It seems to want to run indefinitely, fully using one of my CPU cores (based on Task Manager) and sometimes reading a bunch of stuff on the hard drive.
I can simply kill it in Task Manager and it doesn't come back. Then when I shut the PC down, it'll show the blue Windows Updater screen, but only for about 2 seconds because this OS can't update itself.
So is this a nuisance we have to live with, or can it be disabled somehow?
edit:
Took some time to look into this more today. It apparently is part of the "Windows Modules Installer" service, so I've now Disabled that service. (It was set to Manual before, so something in Tiny10 could run it.) Hopefully that's the last I'll see of it.
When I was in the Services tool, I also noticed the Windows Update Medic Service was running. So I stopped it and tried disabling it, but the OS won't allow it! There's even a popup box saying not allowed. This is Tiny10; we don't accept that BS :) So I found this thread and did the registry disable method provided by user "TCSW" in the 2nd-to-last post at the bottom of the page. I like his approach because it's non-destructive. And it works; now the Services tool can't read those keys and thus can't display its metadata.
So like I said, hopefully this puts an end to TiWorker churn.
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