Fix WMI Provider Host WmiPrvSE exe High CPU Usage in Windows 10

The service WMI Provider Host (WmiPrvSE.exe) is an acronym for Windows Management Instrumentation Provider Service. This is an important service, and it would be tough to manage applications without this process. If it is stopped, many of the system’s functionalities will become useless. Furthermore, users might not even receive notifications for various errors.

At times, you may find that your WMI Provider Host process is consistently utilizing a significant chunk of the CPU on your Windows 10/8/7 computer. Sometimes, the process ends up using more than 50% of the CPU power, especially when media applications are in use.

[roofis]

Was playing around with it for a day and found out it was stupid razer synapse causing this issue

[NS-zixv]

msdt.exe -id MaintenanceDiagnostic

your welcome

[aigarassimaitis]

me client id is 3808 and i cant find it but when i restart wmi it stops the problem and after 1 -3 minutes it comes back

[biinerfiiner]

I can't find any matching PIDs in the list. Every time I go to look for it the program in question has since closed so I can't find the culprit. How else am I supposed to find out what program is hogging my CPU? Is there any way I can have the operational save the name of the program with the ID? This is driving me insane.

[jamesfallows]

i could not find the PID in the task manager services section

[liamvena]

My client process id isn’t there? Is there a solution for this

[brandonhay]

it says access denied how do i get access. I am already the administrator for my pc

[Tilburger]

Unfortunately this does not helped me out. The eventvwr is full of errors but the ClientprocessId's aren't there anymore in the taskmanager.

[martinjanssen]

In my case the CPU usage was regularly 100%, of which WMIPrvSE was taking a large portion. The first process that had excessive failing calls to WMIPrvSE was Dell QuickSet, so I removed it from the startup list. This didn't solve the problem. Then I found a Dell service had these failing WMIPrvSE calls. So I removed all of the Dell services from the startup list using MSCOFIG. The high CPU usage was completely gone. Not only did I experience high CPU usage before, also the mouse pointer froze temporarily. This coincided with 100% CPU usage and the cooling fan making a lot of noise. Sometimes the mouse pointer remained frozen and I had to put the laptop into sleep mode and restart it to get the mouse pointer to work again.
These problems also appear to have gone.

[Valerio_]

Sorry but I can't find "Windows Management Instrumentation". What can I do? The other methods don't work

[KhunRoger]

"Windows could not stop the Windows Management Instrumentation service on Local Computer.

Error 5. Access is denied.

[Frelancerflorida]

msdt.exe - id MaintenanceDiagnostic gives me an unexpected error message and I can't proceed further however step 1 seems to have fixed things for now

[ROOKAT]

Thank you, it was some alienware process, I completely uninstalled alienware command center and it seems to have been fixed now

[dewalderasmus]

ok so the first one solves the problem for me but i don't want to have to do that every time i launch my computer and i tried the others they don't work. is there a permanent solution for the first one?

[anthonyalicea]

Thank you for the easy fix, the first bit of the video is what helped me

[SilverMiraii]

90% and screen goes black, have to restart for it to go away

[king]

your dog spark scared the shit outta me as i was looking for wmi activity.

[Prattiiikk]

What do I do if almost 80% of them have errors?

[ШамильАджиков-хж]

в диспетчере задач нету номера из event viewer

[PatoChu]

my pc has an i9 10900k and i cant even watch this vid cuz my wmi is using 70 percent of my cpu :/