title: Spyder consumes massive bandwidth whenever it is open on windows 10
body: <p>Whenever I have Spyder opened on windows 10, it consumes heavy bandwidth. For example, if I have Spyder opened while having a Skype conversation, the connection becomes really laggy. This goes for all applications, really.</p>
  
  <p>I have tried searching previous posts regarding this issue, but haven't found a solution. </p>
  
  <p>I have noticed that each time I open Spyder, several pythonw.exe processes are created - see picture below:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/YK6ZN.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/YK6ZN.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p>Can anyone help?
  Thanks!</p>