How to stop Win 7 from eating my Internet bandwidth ???

davyjonez · Dec 2, 2014

Hello guys,

Kaspersky network monitor shows that in a matter of 21 days my windows operating system has received 25 GB & sent 17 GB. I haven't set the windows to update automatically. So it's definitely not updating regularly. So I'm wondering why it's happening. Needless to say it's eating a lot of my Internet bandwidth. So is there any way to completely disable the Win 7 from using my Internet ??. I only want to enable it when I'm updating, which happens only once in a month. Thanks in advance

Someone Somewhere · Dec 2, 2014

I'm not sure, but it might be including Internet Explorer and maybe other software (Skype?) in that total. I don't know what Windows would be uploading.

Warukyure · Dec 2, 2014

Check to see if thats also network traffic? Such as stream movies/music from your computer to another computer in your house or vice versa?

Because theres no way Win7 should use that much bandwidth with its updates. Heck a freshly reformatted laptop only needs like 1.8 GB worth of updates (assuming at least SP1).

Your program might be measuring ALL types of traffic incoming and outgoing from your computer and not just traffic leaving your network?

Someone Somewhere · Dec 2, 2014

Pretty sure bitcoin miners use negligible data - it's just processing power and an update every ~15 minutes.

patrickIT · Dec 2, 2014

Do you actually use Geforce experience ? If not could just delete it. It shouldn't have so much traffic. I recall it's checked automatically on install Nvidia drivers these days .

Also, try to use these utilities process explorer,process monitor, auto-runs http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb842062 to check for suspicious activity .

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