Windows 10 Home

I recently got a Dell Laptop from a family member that has Windows 10 Home installed on it. The computer runs fine however it is constantly connecting to speedtest.net. The computer does not have any speed test programs installed. does anyone have any ideas for how to disable this?

Thanks.

I would reinstall windows. Who knows what applications the previous owner installed that would contact that site.

You could use native tools like Resource Monitor to look at PID and see what application is calling out to speedtest.net. Also tools like Procmon, TCPView, Etc from sysinternals might be of some help.

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is there anything in the startup folder? Task Manager | Startup folder

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I will do that as a last resort. I would rather try and troubleshoot if possible.

Everything that can be disabled, is disabled.

Thanks, those apps have good information, but nothing relevant for this issue.

@xMAXIMUSx @Youngs-IT @pavlos and anyone else reading this.

Resolution: an application called smart screen by Rivet Networks, which is now owned by Intel, the manufacture of the wireless card in this system was the cause. Uninstalled the smart screen app and the connections outbound to speedtest.net disappeared. It seems the app is more unnecessary wifi crap. Thanks to everyone for the sigustions.

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another trick that might work is (Iā€™m not a windows person)

add in ā€¦/win32/hosts

speedtest.net 127.0.0.1

it will resolve to localhost instead of going outside.

Pavlos, that trick still works and is a good first step to blocking things while you dig in to find the issue.