WMI stands for Windows Management instrumentation which is a feature which provides a standardized way for a software and administrative scripts for the request of information about the state of the windows creating or operating systems and data on it.
WMI provider host is not supposed to use much of CPU as it is not supposed to do anything which will take CPU consumption. And if you are facing that wmiprvse.exe WMI provider host is using too much of CPU then this is an indicator that there is some other application which is requesting data via WMI.
WMI provider host high CPU could also be a sign that there is something wrong and you need to look at it immediately. If you try to restart the Windows Management instrumentation then it might be able to help you as it will fix things is they are stuck in bad shape. Or your also just restart the service without restarting the computer and you can do this by having a look at the steps which are given below for you –
- After starting the menu you need to type services.msc and then hit on enter button to launch the services tool on your device.
- Now look for Windows Management instrumentation service and then right click on it and then press on restart button to fix WMI provider host high CPU usage.
- Now once the service is restarted the issues you were facing might be fixed and you can use Windows Management instrumentation without any issues.
We hope that the information which we have provided to our users in this blog was of help to them and they were able to fix their issues with the same. Let us tell you that these steps will only be able to help you when you will execute them carefully and properly.
