

Right-click the "Event ID" column header and select "Sort events by this column".In the left pane, go to Applications and Service Logs\Microsoft\Windows\WMI-Activity\Operational.Press the start button, type "Event Viewer" and hit enter.You should be able to track down the culprit using Event Viewer: WMI itself isn't likely to be the problem, it's a service that other applications/services use to request data about the system, so it's likely that another service is spamming it with requests which are causing the high CPU usage. UserBenchmarks: Game 110%, Desk 87%, Work 112%Ĭorsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB Could be related?)ĭoes anyone have any information on this, I'm very worried lmao. (Additionally, my PC's power plan keeps setting itself to Ultimate Performance, no matter how many times I set it to the Ryzen Balanced Plan. (GPU is OC'd in MSI Afterburner to +100 Core Clock, and +1100 Memory Clock) I've run malware scans, I've closed every program, I've restarted more times than I can count, I updated my bios and all my drivers are up to date, and CPU temps and clock are as they should be/always have been. Hey, so as the title suggests, for the last 32 hours-ish, my CPU has been running at 100% usage, no matter what I do. I set Minimum Processor State in power plan settings to 5% which seems to have fixed things for now. Restarting WMI Host no longer temporarily fixes the CPU usage problem. I am now under the impression that the issue is Windows Management Instrumentation, but I don't really know where to go from there. However, every time I restart my PC, the problem arises again. I entered system config and restarted this, and it fixed my issue. I noticed a reoccurring program that would show up as using a lot of resources was the WMI Provider Host. Thanks for the help guys! :) Also, in addition to solving this problem, I actually improved overall performance on my PC because it forced me to have a look at all the software I have installed and running all the time that I never use while I was trying to figure out what was wrong 😂


I set mine to 5%, but whatever works for you. The solution was to lower the Minimum Processor State in Power Plan settings.
