High WMI Provider CPU Usage

OmicronEta · July 10, 2019

Hi, my WMI Provider seems to be taking up a huge amount of CPU resources. At times it took up 97% of the cpu. This leads to games that I play(i.e. Destiny 2, Rainbow Six) stutter to a point where it can simply be called freezing up and crashing. When using firefox it stutters for anywhere from 30 seconds to a minute and then moves for 12 seconds, not catching up with activities that have happened in the time that it was frozen. I have found that after in task manager when this lagging is that WMI provider seems to ramp up its usage around 20 minutes after booting the computer. What can I do to fix this problem.

Norwegiantweaker · July 10, 2019

it shouldn't do that unless something is accessing ur computers info alot. have you downloaded anything shady the past whenever this issue first started?

OmicronEta · July 10, 2019

3 minutes ago, Norwegiantweaker said:

it shouldn't do that unless something is accessing ur computers info alot. have you downloaded anything shady the past whenever this issue first started?

This Problem has happened very recently, and I have not downloaded anything shady on my computer. Nothing comes up with a virus scan either.

Norwegiantweaker · July 10, 2019

Just now, OmicronEta said:

have you ran a malware scan ?

it is the wmiprvse causing the issue right ?. even if its not something shady you have downloaded it can be a legit app. ive heard about ad blocking programs causing this and some other random apps

OmicronEta · July 10, 2019

OmicronEta · July 10, 2019

33 minutes ago, Norwegiantweaker said:

have you ran a malware scan ?

it is the wmiprvse causing the issue right ?. even if its not something shady you have downloaded it can be a legit app. ive heard about ad blocking programs causing this and some other random apps

After looking around some it seems that what you said was correct. One of my razer progams seems to be the culprit behind this. So I will be uninstalling Cortex, and hope that fixes the problem.