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Lately I have noticed my laptop experiencing the following symptoms:
- Running Hot
- CPU constantly at >50%
- Slow to load things
After using Process Explorer (Sysinternals) I could see this was related to a WMI Provider Host (WmiPrvSE.exe) running as NETWORK SERVICE. The strange thing is the performance profile as it constantly spikes for a second, drops, then spikes back for a second, drops... repeat. Clearly indicating that there is a query being run at very frequent intervals as evident by this chart.
I found it difficult to track down the culprit causing the WMI queries, but I knew the problem was still evident after a reboot so I started checking my tray icons and start up applications. By process of elimination I found that closing the GoPro Studio Importer the problem went away.
The importer is run from the executable: C:\Program Files (x86)\GoPro\Tools\Importer\GoPro Importer.exe
GoPro Studio version: 2.5.4.404
To validate this I launched the executable and the problem returned.
I haven't found any settings in GoPro Studio to prevent the importer launching at startup, so I simply went to the Startup tab in taskmgr and disabled it from there.
Props to the blog http://blog.notmyfault.ch/?p=427 which helped to clarify my findings.
Lately I have noticed my laptop experiencing the following symptoms:
- Running Hot
- CPU constantly at >50%
- Slow to load things
After using Process Explorer (Sysinternals) I could see this was related to a WMI Provider Host (WmiPrvSE.exe) running as NETWORK SERVICE. The strange thing is the performance profile as it constantly spikes for a second, drops, then spikes back for a second, drops... repeat. Clearly indicating that there is a query being run at very frequent intervals as evident by this chart.
I found it difficult to track down the culprit causing the WMI queries, but I knew the problem was still evident after a reboot so I started checking my tray icons and start up applications. By process of elimination I found that closing the GoPro Studio Importer the problem went away.
The importer is run from the executable: C:\Program Files (x86)\GoPro\Tools\Importer\GoPro Importer.exe
GoPro Studio version: 2.5.4.404
To validate this I launched the executable and the problem returned.
I haven't found any settings in GoPro Studio to prevent the importer launching at startup, so I simply went to the Startup tab in taskmgr and disabled it from there.
Props to the blog http://blog.notmyfault.ch/?p=427 which helped to clarify my findings.
