COM object CPU leak in Win 10 Topic is solved

[pneumatic]

This only occurs on my Windows 10 install (v1903 May 2019). Windows 7 appears unaffected.

Code is from https://www.autohotkey.com/docs/commands/URLDownloadToFile.htm

(it just downloads the current version number of ahk from https://autohotkey.com/download/1.1/version.txt)

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#Persistent
return

^1::  ;Ctrl+1
req := ComObjCreate("Msxml2.XMLHTTP")
	; also try Msxml2.XMLHTTP.3.0 , Msxml2.XMLHTTP.6.0 , Msxml2.ServerXMLHTTP
	; Msxml2.ServerXMLHTTP.3.0 , Msxml2.ServerXMLHTTP.6.0 , Microsoft.XMLHTTP 
req.open("GET", "https://autohotkey.com/download/1.1/version.txt", true)
req.onreadystatechange := Func("Ready")
req.send()
return


Ready(){
global req
    
	if (req.readyState != 4)  ; Not done yet.
		return
	if (req.status == 200) ; OK.
		MsgBox % "Latest AutoHotkey version: " req.responseText
	else
		MsgBox 16,, % "Status " req.status
	
	req.abort()  
	req := ""
}

When the script is launched, CPU usage is zero as it should be:



Press Ctrl+1 to download the file



Download complete, but now CPU usage is pegged at 0.02



It seems that some thread belonging to the COM object must still be alive and needs to be released or closed the right way?

I've tried disconnecting the ComObj from events with ComObjConnect() and releasing its interface pointer with ObjRelease() (after getting it with ComObjType() and ComObjQuery() ).

[swagfag]

its not doing it on my computer

Spoiler

the only time cpu time is consumed is (1) when the script is first launched, (2) when the xmlhttprequest is made, (3) when msgboxes show up and when u interact with them(move, mouseover, destroy)

[pneumatic]

Thanks.

I guess it must be something about my system configuration causing it. I will try a fresh install of Windows.

[pneumatic]

Found the culprit, it was the motherboard's ethernet controller driver ("Killer E2200 Gigabit Ethernet Controller"). Motherboard is an Asrock Z97X Killer. I already knew that Killer ethernet software was dodgy as its "bandwidth control" feature was randomly turning itself on and throttling my network traffic to a few mbps.