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		JdeBP on May 17, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: High CPU use by taskhost.exe when Windows 8.1 user... I'm guessing that this will turn out to be the well-known Installer Detection, around since the time of Windows NT 6.0. * https://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/cc709628(v=ws.10... * https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/uac/2006/01/13/identificati...

ape4 on May 18, 2016 [–]

That looks like it! Wow, crazy. My application was updating some data but not installing an application.

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