A number of windows 10 users reported problems with WMI Provider Host andhigh CPU usage after windows update.

Is WMI provider host (WmiPrvSE.exe) a virus?

If this service stops many of the systems functionalities will become useless

Can i Disable wmi provider host?

WMI Provider Host is a system service, therefore, it cannot be permanently stopped or disabled.

Perform aclean bootand check it will help determine if a third-party service on the startup causing the issue.

And that resultsHigh CPU usage Windows 10.

Lets initiate the event viewer and find out the cause of WMI becoming unresponsive.

Now fire up the Task Manager > Services tab and tap on PID to arrange the processes by PID.

Check with uninstalling the system probably this helps fixwmi provider host high CPUusage problem on windows 10.

Once done reset your PC and verify if there is no more high CPU usage in Windows 10.

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