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WMI Provider Host, how to disable it?

Ducky123

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I'm having this little problem with a service called WMI Provider Host. It's sometimes eating up to 10% of my cpu power even though I have disabled the service as suggested by many online articles about this program. Does anyone have any suggestions what I could do to fight this nuisance? cpu can be a bit of a bottleneck on my system so it'd really help me make this laptop a little faster.

[attachments: one is showing a glimpse at my task-manager showing the extensive cpu usage, the other is proof that I disabled the service (deactiviert = disabled, sorry I didn't want to convert my whole system to english for this :P)]
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Well, I don't have a problem with that process. It always uses 0% CPU on the computer I use. Maybe this website could help with your problem.

I had a similar issue to your problem where I disable Windows Update via services because it always used up so much CPU in my system, but I notice that it appears again in Task Manager. I check the services again, and guess what...Windows Update went from Disabled to Manual (Trigger Start). I found out that this service actually re-enables itself after a certain amount of time. I don't bother reverting the setting anymore since Windows Update doesn't use a lot of CPU anymore or interrupt my current session with updates.

So yeah, weird that the service is running despite showing itself as disabled in the services window.


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This thread is pretty old, but I assume your problem has been solved at this point?


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