BackgroundDownloader.exe (Visual Studio auto. updater)

Gerard Schornagel 20 Reputation points
2024-11-14T16:14:20.24+00:00

Goodday,

For many years now the BackgroundDownloader is fetching new data between 4-8 times a day and does this thru a new folder.

My firewall is popping up every other hour asking if this program is allowed. I have collectively pressed the allow button thousands of times thru the years and frankly I'm done with it.

Or the disable of the (update)program has no repercussions on the IDE or make it so it's executed from the same place preferable the same program or a low cycling in versions.

As of now I cannot tell my firewall to allow a program that is relocated every time AND is new to the pc (downloaded/creation date) as "safe". That would be the equivalent of just turning the firewall off (with exception the blacklist if existing)

So I have to urge you guys to make a better implementation of this because after all these years it is shameful to operate such professional software with this garbage update solution.

Even seen from your side this has to change, because you're annoying people that like to have a secured system multiple times a day or (even worse) push people to unsecure (parts of) the security because of all the false alarms.

My solution: just include the freaking updater within the Vstudio environment (no more multiple downloads a day)
This saves you a lot of bandwidth($$$$$), a lot of frustrated users that like to work secure and even cluttering the system's temp folder and slowing down machines (thru low diskspace which is important these days with SSD's) and hereby contributing to a bad reputation of a slow Windows.

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  1. Tianyu Sun-MSFT 31,606 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
    2024-11-15T05:48:41.2633333+00:00

    Hello @Gerard Schornagel ,

    Thank you very much for taking the time to post this issue in Microsoft Q&A forum.

    I do notice this issue and the similar feedback, kindly see this thread: Visual Studio BackgroundDownload.exe using all the system resources.

    Not sure if you have tried to disable the task by following the steps which I mentioned in above thread, maybe this help to stop/reduce the running of BackgroundDownload.exe temporary.

    I have tried to report this issue again. Would you mind also raising a new ticket on our Developer Community and directly reporting this issue to Visual Studio Product Team? If you do raise a new ticket, please share the ticket link here for better tracking.

    Thank you again for helping us make Visual Studio better.

    Wish you a wonderful day ahead!

    Tianyu


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