[BUG]: Tests won't run without admin privileges on Windows and are very flaky

[nfelt14]

Description of the bug

I am unable to run the unit tests without admin privileges on Windows. The tests should be able to run without enhanced privileges.

Steps To Reproduce

1. Run unit tests in cmd prompt
2. notice they all have errors

Environment Information

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Additional Information

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[u625355]

I was able to run unit tests after activating virtual environment from command prompt without admin privileges on Windows.

[nfelt14]

I was not, we should probably figure out a way to do this that doesn't require psutil.

[u625355]

May be we can use os and socket packages instead of psutil.

[nfelt14]

We should just be able to run it within the existing python process as a background thread.

[nfelt14]

The tests also seem to run extremely slowly

[nfelt14]

The tests also often have false failures when run during GitHub Actions.

[nfelt14]

@pradhanfortive this keeps happening in CI. The tests fail repeatedly due to the flakiness within them. This needs to be addressed.