WMI Provider Host - CPU usage

Hi there guys, I wonder if you can help me... I'm getting a bit frustrated.

A couple days ago I booted my Win8 laptop out of sleep and noticed a ridiculously high CPU usage of 60% when it was running idle. Turns out "WMI Provider" is constantly running at 40-70% - never had this problem before and it's starting to get irritating. I've done a little bit of research and apparently some viruses can masquerade as WMI Provider Host? Currently doing a virus check, but I've never had this issue before and I wonder if you guys can help?

Cheers!

 

I also had this problem recently, and I believe I've solved it for now, as I haven't had the problem in about a week. Here's what I did:

First, I decided to do a few restarts of my computer to make sure it wasn't just a one time thing that a reboot would solve. When it persisted across reboots, I decided that it was probably a problem with some other service or program that runs on startup. To determine this, I disabled everything that was set to boot at startup and tried again. This time, WMI Provider Host was not using large amounts of CPU.

Once I determined that it was something that was running at startup, I began to pinpoint the problem program. I re-enabled things that I knew worked fine in the past and restarted. No spike in CPU usage. Then I began to re-enable different programs that I installed more recently or was unsure about. Finally, I found the culprit (it was actually two culprits in my case, but both came from the same software package. They're part of a networking application I needed to run, but were completely unnecessary to the functionality of it, so I turned them off and everything was still fine), left it disabled, and re-enabled other useful things.

Currently, I have not experienced the problem in about a week. I can't quite think of a better solution at the moment, and I can't guarantee you're having this problem for the same reason, but it's a good start. Hopefully this works for you!

 

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