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Genie acting like a virus
I was wondering if anyone else has reported this behavior.
Today my machine was acting sluggish.
I killed all programs that I know that I started during the session.
It was still a little slugg...
You did not say what your system was, but from the context, and reference to Task Manager, I assumed that it is a Windows PC.
If so, the genie icon can get lost, especially if you tell Windows to hide things in the notification area.
Another way to find it is to go into Task Manager, click the Start-Up tab and disable NETGEAR Genie there.
The CPU thing is odd. I have seen other reports of this. Never did get to the bottom of it.
Thanks for replying.
But I don't see anything like a "notifications" area or any option like that on any screens on my version of Genie.
You did not say what your system was, but from the context, and reference to Task Manager, I assumed that it is a Windows PC.
If so, the genie icon can get lost, especially if you tell Windows to hide things in the notification area.
Another way to find it is to go into Task Manager, click the Start-Up tab and disable NETGEAR Genie there.
The CPU thing is odd. I have seen other reports of this. Never did get to the bottom of it.
Thank you MIchael.
I thought you were talking about a notification are in genie.
No matter what I did, the genie icon never showed up there.
But I was able to disable it in the task manager startup tab.
Still curios about how it was utilizing so much CPU, but the problem has been resolved.
dja014 wrote:
Still curios about how it was utilizing so much CPU, but the problem has been resolved.
It happened to me once, and I worked through other stuff that was running, killing things one at a time. In the end the genie stopped reporting the overload. So I put it down to a subtle interaction with something else.
But it never made sense.
michaelkenward wrote:
I have seen other reports of this. Never did get to the bottom of it.
This CPU bound hit me in the past several times, typically started when on the road and accessing other site networks.
