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Rogue computername.exe process
G'day, hoping that someone here can help me work out how to permanently fix this issue. Yesterday my computer revved up and stayed that way. I looked and the CPU usage through the task manager and it was sitting at about 51% but I didn't have any programs open.
I then narrowed down the process that is causing the issue and it is computername.exe (my actual computer name). I tried to locate the actual file but it appears not to exist (yes I am set to view hidden files). When I terminate the process via the task manager my CPU usage drops down to 2%. Problem is that whenever I restart my computer the process revs up again until I kill it manually.
I can't think of anything that I did to cause this to occur. Does anyone have any ideas about how to fix it (hopefully without a full factory reset!).
Cheers!