Windows 10: High WMI Provider Host CPU usage, error involving IWbemServices

I am troubleshooting high WMI Provider Host CPU usage. I looked in WMI-Activity under the event log and I see the whole screen filled with this error:Id = {00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}; ClientMachine = BATTLESTATION; User = NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE; ClientProcessId = 44268; Component = Unknown; Operation = Start IWbemServices::ExecQuery - ROOT\StandardCimv2 : SELECT * FROM MSFT_NetAdapterStatisticsSettingData WHERE Name = 'Ether

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WMI Provider host CPU usage

Hi Andrew,

To help you with your concern of WMI provider host using more than half of the processor power, you may check out the helpful troubleshooting links we have provided you.

Please see the posts of TWP176 and Shivam Kesarwani by clicking the link below:

WMI Provider Host and constant CPU utilisation.

Please see the post of sbm15 by clicking the next link, for further troubleshooting suggestion.

Solved: WMI Provider Host (High CPU Usage and Laptop Overheating) Windows10.

Let us know how it goes.

Regards.

 

WMI High CPU Usage 22H2

Hi Jacob. I'm Greg, 10 years awarded Windows MVP, here to help you.

Try these fixes for WMI High CPU usage in Windows 11 and 10:

https://www.itechtics.com/wmi-provider-host-wmi...

https://10scopes.com/fix-wmi-provider-host-high...

https://www.technewstoday.com/wmi-provider-host...

https://www.howtogeek.com/332838/what-is-the-wm...

https://techloris.com/wmi-provider-host-high-cpu/



Report back results for each step so I know what else to suggest.

Feel free to ask back any questions. Based on the results you post back I may have other suggestions if necessary.

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WMI Provider Host (High CPU Usage)

The Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is a regular Windows service mainly for consolidating the device and applications management in a network. By this post, we want to share to all Community members that this is not really the one causing the high
CPU usage, rather something is causing it.

To further help you resolve the concern, we are providing you a link to a thread with almost the same concern. Cristian, we figured out that this thread might help you resolve the issue so kindly check it out:

Solved: WMI Provider Host (High CPU Usage and Laptop Overheating) Windows10

Kindly post back with the results as we are eager to know what works for you.