Ive had this problem for a while now on 2 tills at one place where I look after the tills. The problem also made things worse because one of the tills was the main printer till, so it would delay the printouts to the kitchen!
The likelihood is, its windows defender scanning your till. Whilst researching, I found a way of disabling it. It is recommended you do have anti-virus software on your tills however Windows Defender sucks up most if not ALL of the CPU. Id recommend looking for another.
press the start button and search for gpedit.msc
On Computer Configuration click âAdministrative Templatesâ
Could just be my computer but windows defender uses very little resourcesâŠits smaller footprint than most other anti virus. However I turn off all the auto scan stuff⊠In fact windows defender is using 0 resources but I keep it enabled so I can do scheduled scans. I turn off the auto protect and make it scan while my store is closed.
Itâs just my opinion but these pcs shouldnât be internet facing or allowed to logon To the desktop at all. The registers we have have samba setup as the shell so when they boot they got straight to samba. We also have them blocked from internet access in the hardware firewall we use a fortinet for this as it gives great control and even has a antivirus scanner built into the firewall where it will stop the packets if it senses the signature of the bits to be malicious. It also has category based filtering for website content using SSL inspection. Just my two cents. Server is also allowed internet access but has all the appropriate security policies in place on the fortinet. Also we are running webroot on the server alongside windows defender and it uses little or no resources. Server is headless and is not used unless maintenance needs to be done.
Whilst what you say is true and and in my opinion is a really good way of going about multi terminal setups, not everyone is tech savy to be able to set it up like that unless the resellers do that type of setup when they do the installation on client sites.
For most people, they would just use the most basic and efficient way possible, sometimes ignoring the risks of vulnerability by having internet access on client machines whilst running samba via windows rather than shell.
Some consider savings and efficiency whilst other bigger projects invest a little more time and effort inclusive of security
uhh, youâld think thatâs easy right? But this is Windows weâre talking about
So it was set to my opening times 8am and 5pm - yet, it would still scan for 2 hours in the morning after these times⊠so we just came to an executive decision to turn it off lol
Lol people bash windows but maybe its just me⊠ive always thought it was the easiest os to configure and use.
Wow takes that long? I dont schedule full scans but once a month or so. quick scans are more than enough⊠besides I dont visit anything to get viruses
