New Year's present from Lenovo- TVTSched eats the machine

[richk]

I am posting this in case someone else has the same problem. My T42p worked fine last night, but when I booted January 1, the machine hung loading the desktop. The Thinkvantage scheduler (TVTSched) service was using 100% of the CPU. The fix was to shut off the machine by holding down the power button, and then restarting in safe mode by holding down F8. Start control panel/administrative tools/services. Find Thinkvantage Scheduler and change the startup mode from automatic to disabled.

[Johan]

For me, this also happened yesterday; TVTSched.exe again took up 100 % of the CPU power/time. If you search for "TVTSched" in this forum, you will find many users who have reported the same problem. I have long ago disabled "TVTSched.exe" but somehow it seems to have re-enabled itself again?!

Anyway, the simplest way to disable "TVTSched.exe" is, in my opinion, to use the free and very easy/powerful Sysinternals/Microsoft program AutoRuns for Windows (v9.0) - get it, run it, search for "TVTSched.exe" , disable it, re-boot, and that's it.

PS: I also very much like Sysinternals/Microsoft "Task Manager-like" program Process Explorer - it's free as well!

Best regards,

Johan

[GACrabill]

... I have long ago disabled "TVTSched.exe" but somehow it seems to have re-enabled itself again?! ...

I did one additional step.

Since 'TVTSched.exe' seems to be associated with System Update, I started System Update, clicked on 'Schedule updates', and discovered that the default setting is 'Enable automatic updates' (Notify .....).

I then unchecked the 'Enable automatic updates'.
Hopefully this will stop System Update if he is the one that re-enables 'TVTSched.exe'.

[underlig]

It re-enables the automatic updates each time the system update -program updates itself.

currently the way to stop this crazy thing is to disable the service for
c:\program files\common files\lenovo\scheduler\tvtsched.exe

and the registryvalue for
c:\program files\common files\lenovo\scheduler\scheduler_proxy.exe
(hkey_local_machine\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run)
you can type REM infront of the data value.