Why is awesomeminer leaving a ton of mining windows open all of a sudden?
You have to go to task manager and manually close the conhosts?
Any fix?
I'm not able to reproduce this. Can you please share more details?
If you start and stop a Managed Miner - is it still running? Are you launching the mining software in Admin mode or are there any other non-default settings?
I am running it the same way I have for years, latest updates. Don't think it runs as admin mode, unless there is a setting in awesomeminer for that. Basically when it switches mining software/windows it leaves the old cmd window box and you can't click x to close it, it is NOT mining, but the new box is, and the only way to get rid of the tons of boxes is to end them from task manager. They are listed as conhost.exe and Suspended status.
PS. And it is weird because it is only doing it on my Ryzen machine, the Intel ones are not doing this. I added exceptions to Avast as I have been doing for years and never had this issue. I'm doing nothing different then before the last update, which didn't just do the small normal update, but had me actually re-install it?
Thanks for the update.
The last few minor version of Awesome Miner have been small and not related to how mining software is started.
1) Can you try to disable Avast completely on one of the computers to see if that makes any difference?
2) Can you please check the setting "Run mining process with Administrator privileges" in the Properties of a miner, Environment section. I'm not asking for a change of the setting, but it's good for me to know if it's enabled or not to get a more complete understanding of your setup. Thanks!