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WGAtray.exe
Tuesday 29th August, 2006 10:46 Comments: 0
I think I finally understand why people complain so much about WGATray.exe making their PC slow. I booted into Windows on my laptop and connected a new network cable. I had set it to use DHCP for use at home, but when I connected it directly to the internet there was no DHCP server to give me an IP. I tried to open Windows Explorer and a couple other things as my system crawled, I brought Task Manager up, and I was only using about 4% of the CPU power, so I wasn't sure why everything was hanging. I killed WGATray.exe as I have a legitimate copy of Windows and didn't think it'd be a problem, and up came all those windows that I'd started. My guess is that when the application tries - and fails - to connect to Microsoft to do its thing it also forces Windows to grind to a halt. At least until it times out. We had a similar problem trying to play BF2 at the LAN party over the weekend, as the screen would go black and sit there for aaaaages and then suddenly up would come the EA video and then we could play the game. Presumably because having 6 of us on dialup (when it was on, most of the time it was off) meant it couldn't connect and do its thing either. Silly programs.
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