I have taken to running Process Monitor with the processes sorted
by CPU usage, so that I can "quickly" suspend msinfo32exe when it
grabs "half" the cpu and freezes everything else. Usually I notice
this when PaleMoon is running and suddenly the mouse pointer just
stops.
Then begins the move mouse on the desk and aim for the procmon
window, then try to get the pointer on msinfo32 and then suspending/
terminating it is "simple".

Googleing it leads me to the conclusion that MS seems to believe I
really do want to run it, when what I want to know is why is it
running in the first place? Why is it running up to eight copies, and
why is it hogging resources so much?

Does anyone have any good ideas on how to prevent this, or is this
another MS "enhancement to my computer experience" whether I like it
or not?

grumble

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