Just an observation on Windows 8 that I wanted to share which may also help others using Windows Vista and 7.<\/p>\n
Recently, I was seeing some graphical glitches occur under Windows 8 as well as CPU usage getting stuck at 25% for unusually long periods of time on my quad-core i7 desktop. This meant that one core was being consumed persistently for no apparent reason. Obviously, this isn’t a good thing particularly with power conservation coming more into focus these days. The offending process was noted as\u00a0COM Surrogate<\/strong> which maps to dllhost.exe in Windows.<\/p>\n In order to unstick the process I would reboot my computer which would temporarily resolve the problem but it would eventually come back.<\/p>\n I thought that perhaps the video drivers might be causing a problem so I rolled back from the official nVidia drivers to the standard drivers included with Windows 8 and restarted the system. Having done that a couple of days ago things have been working fine ever since with no further video glitches or processes chewing up the CPU for no reason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Just an observation on Windows 8 that I wanted to share which may also help others using Windows Vista and 7. Recently, I was seeing some graphical glitches occur under Windows 8 as well as CPU usage getting stuck at 25% for unusually long periods of time on my quad-core i7 desktop. This meant that … <\/p>\n