Trippy Posted January 4, 2012 Posted January 4, 2012 Hello everyone and happy New Year. I haven't posted for ages as 'day job' and volunteer activities take much of my waking time. I have been (sucessfully) running some older recycled laptops using W7 for volunter activities but one has slowed to almost unusable due to wmiprvse hogging 90% of the processor time. I have tried to find the culprit by running traces but cannot generate or read a logfile (I'm crap with advanced stuff). If I suspend the process everything seems to work fine. I have uninstalled anything I don't need or use but the problem still exists. Something must be creating a looped request or similar? I have current McAfee AV licensed software and have used the trusty Malwarebytes software for many years so I'm fairly sure it's not a virus or malware. As ever, any advice gratefully received. Regards Trippy Quote A Cynic is merely an Idealist with his eyes open
Plastic Nev Posted January 4, 2012 Posted January 4, 2012 Hi Trippy, I can only find out that it is a part of the Windows operating system, as I found here= http://www.what-is-exe.com/filenames/wmiprvse-exe.html However a further search found this, which has a scanner to search for related errors right at the top of this page here= http://www.processlibrary.com/directory/files/wmiprvse/19202/ Hope that is of help for both understanding the process and sorting the problem. Nev. Quote Need help with your computer problems? Then why not join Free PC Help. Register here. If Free PC Help has helped you then please consider a donation. Click here We are all members helping other members. Please return here where you may be able to help someone else. After all, no one knows everything and you may have the answer that someone needs. -------------------------------------------------------------------- I have installed Windows, now how do I install the curtains? 😄
Trippy Posted January 5, 2012 Author Posted January 5, 2012 Many thanks, Nev. I have tried a few suggestions but still cannot identify the culprit that is exciting wmiprvse.exe. I can currently use a workaround by suspending the process thereby getting the processor overhead back to around 10% making the system perfectly usable. Quote A Cynic is merely an Idealist with his eyes open
KenB Posted January 5, 2012 Posted January 5, 2012 Hi, I found a fix related to [h=1]SMS 2003 SP3[/h]Is this on your machine? You say you are using an older machine with Win7. Was Win7 the original Operating System ? Quote There is an email going around offering processed pork - gelatin - and salt in a can ......this is simply SPAM !! MiniToolBoxNetwork TestWireless Test
Trippy Posted January 5, 2012 Author Posted January 5, 2012 Hi Ken Many thanks for your response. No, the original OS was XP Pro. I had to upgrade the BIOS to run W7 (the upgrade was to allow the machine to run VISTA but works for it's later incarnation) The laptop, and several other identical units, have run reliably for 18 months or more just this one (that I'm using now) has developed the looped high CPU problem. I'm sure someone with better debugging abilities than me (and that's not hard!) could sort it relatively quickly. Some of the stuff I have read and tried is really beyond my limited knowledge.I If all else fails I can simply format the drive and do a reinstall but I'm a pedantic b*gger and like to get to the bottom of problems such as this! Thanks and kind regards Trippy Quote A Cynic is merely an Idealist with his eyes open
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