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Hokie

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Thu Dec 6, 2018, 08:47 PM Dec 2018

WMI Provider Host service using 20% of CPU constantly [View all]

I have a 4 or 5 year old HP Envy laptop. I am running Windows 10. A service called WMI Provider Host is consuming 20% of the CPU which cause the cooling fan all the time. I have run Avast! AV and Malwarebytes scans with no luck. I have also followed on line guides on this issue that tell you to run Windows Event Viewer to identify the process ID of the service that show an error under WMI-activity and those processes are not even running when I open Task Manager.

I have also tried removing things what start with Windows but can seem to fix this issue.

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