On Windows7 Pro, Opera 71.0.3770.284 and few consecutive earlier versions since late August 2020 Opera Autoupdate almost crashes the system by excessive consumption of resources once it starts. All CPU cores are at max, memory at max, intense disk usage and dominant network usage. Detected that multiple opera_autoupdate.exe and single Opera_Stable_#### (version number) processes are the ones gobbling the resources by using the only somewhat-working process on Windows when the problem arises- the task manager. Even it, after ctrl-alt-delete, takes several minutes to appear but afterwards is functional. All other applications behave as if dead/crashed. Once update is done (typically about 30 minutes) everything else returns to normal, including Opera browser itself, the Windows system and all other applications. Just as nothing have happened. Problem that is particularly irritating is that there is no announcement or option to request Opera to ask user if it is OK to start update. Hence some of my interaction-critical work was unacceptably killed in the middle of it and this is very bad for any user doing any serious work. I reported this as Opera bug but no response there. Any suggestions?
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