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Nighthawk A7000 genie using 30+% of cpu
Alright. I've posted about this in the past and it seems that the issue comes and goes. Full uninstall and reinstalling doesn't do a thing. Even when I specifically choose the standalone driver from ...
Casel002 wrote:
Really getting annoyed having a third of my CPU locked in for it to run-makes most online games stutter badly, and even ones I'm on playing on steam that need the connection to save stuff to my steam cloud.
Tried uninstalling the Netgear Smart Wizard?
Then again, what does this mean?
Casel002 wrote:
It just ALWAYS installs the genie..
If that is the Netgear genie for your operating system, that should turn up when you are messing around with a USB adapter.
You can uninstall that too. Or just tell Windows not to launch it when it starts.
That CPU thing is strange. It affects only a handful of people. But it must be annoying for those victims.