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Conhost exe
I have 26 instances of conhost.exe running at the moment. It's slowing the laptop down. Yesterday there were close to 300 and when it first happened a few days ago there were 240. The only thing I can do is to restart the laptop which clears them for a while.
I have AVG with firewall and Spysweeper automatically running scans every day and they are clear. Today I've also scanned with Spybot and Adaware and neither of them have found anything.
The only thing I can think of is that I installed Dragon Naturally Speaking just before the problems began and when it's started up it scatters icons all over the desktop to clear spaces for itself. That's probably nonsense but I can't think of anything else that's affected the desktop.
Can anyone think of anything more I can try please? It isn't that it's causing problems, apart from the slowness, I can correct it by a simple restart but it's really annoying.