After Effects CC seems to automatically render every time I make a change. HELP

A yellow bar appears under my compostion window above my time line. I can't even type a sentence with the type tool without it trying to render every letter. Its making my computer and my worklow painfully slow and it's also irritating me. I don't kno why it suddenly started to do this while I was editing audio layers. Can anyone tell me how to turn it off? Please?
Update: it also makes it so my RAM preview only renders 1 frame at a time and it cannot store any rendered frames so it has to always start over and rerender everything.

You have not provided system information and other details. That aside, standard procedures apply - trash the prefs, flush the caches, check your configuration, verify that the source files are intact, reinstall the program if necessary.
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