Microsoft has published the newsletter
KB3053711 , which reports a small problem in the Windows 8.1 operating system and offers a way to solve it.
In all versions of Windows 8.1, an excessively high consumption of computing resources by the
task task.exe process is
noted if the account contains the characters "user". The CPU load is displayed in the Windows Process Manager.
According to Microsoft, the reason for the incorrect operation of the DFPCommon.dl component.
To solve the problem, attention should be ... "
do not create accounts on the computer with the names of users that use the string" user ", ” the
official Microsoft newsletter says.
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It seems that the Microsoft instruction looks a little mocking. After all, it is rather difficult to go back in time and tell yourself not to create such accounts. In fact, to solve the problem, you should
delete the accounts with the characters "user", created earlier.
On the other hand, this is an example of a universal instruction for solving all problems: just “
do not do this ”!
Microsoft is not the first to offer unusual solutions to problems in MS Windows and MS Office. The classics of the genre is newsletter
KB168702 . it described a situation where when trying to return data from Microsoft Query 97 to a sheet of Microsoft Excel 97 for a long time, the rotating globe icon could be displayed (which means that the request is being processed), and then the request did not return data to the sheet.
One of three solutions: “If you constantly move the mouse pointer while transferring data to Microsoft Excel, the request may not end with an error. Do not stop moving the cursor until all data has been received by Microsoft Excel. Note: Depending on the request, it may take several minutes to return the results of the query to the sheet. ”