wmiprvse sucking up cpu at startup

Peter M

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Jun 1, 2008, 5:21:00 PM6/1/08

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I am running XP Home and wmiprvse.exe is sucking up a lot of cpu resourses at
startup, making startup pretty slow. Seems to quiet down after several
minutes. Any suggestions on what to do? i have goolgled wmiprvse, and get
info like it is malware (which it's not), it may be related to an HP device
(I do have an Oficejet printer installed), and lastly that it may be realted
to faulty network card (potentially on any machine in my wireless network at
home). Any ideas on what the REAL problem is?
Thnx

Gerry

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Jun 1, 2008, 6:35:01 PM6/1/08

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Peter

What are your anti-virus and anti-spyware arrangements? What firewall
are you using? In asking these questions I am not hinting it is malware.

What Error and Warning Reports are there in Event Viewer?

You can access Event Viewer by selecting Start, Control Panel,
Administrative Tools, and Event Viewer.

A tip for posting copies of Error Reports! Run Event Viewer and double
click on the error you want to copy. In the window, which appears is a
button resembling two pages. Click the button and close Event
Viewer.Now start your message (email) and do a paste into the body of
the message. Make sure this is the first paste after exiting from
Event Viewer.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Bob Harris

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Jun 1, 2008, 6:42:12 PM6/1/08

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The problem is Microsoft Windows XP. Somewhere about January of 2008 there
was an update to XP that caused my PC (with SP-2 already installed) to run
100% CPU for a while after every reboot. The XP task manager showed
wmiprsve.exe was the process using the CPU cycles. I tried reducing its
priority, but that did not help much. It extended the total boot-up time,
while only making the PC slightly more responsive to other commands.

I have a single CPU machine. But, if you happen to have a dual CPU
processor, then you might gain some control by setting the "affinity" of the
wmiprsve.exe process to 1 (meaning let it use only 1 CPU).

By the way, a good program for setting both priority and affinity is
procexp.exe (process explorer), which is available free from Microsoft:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/86a95979-23f8-45f5-9480-f4ed9dab3aab.aspx

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Peter M

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Jun 1, 2008, 6:54:00 PM6/1/08

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Thanks Gerry.

I am using CA for both anti-virus & spyware. I did not install the the CA
firewall (because it is really annoying), so I am using the regular Windows
firewall instead.

In Event Viewer, unders System, I have a bunch of Service Control Manager
errors.

A few examples from earlier today are included below.

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7034
Date: 6/1/2008
Time: 9:59:40 AM
User: N/A
Computer: MEGCOMPUTER
Description:
The NVIDIA Display Driver Service service terminated unexpectedly. It has
done this 1 time(s).

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7000
Date: 6/1/2008
Time: 9:58:18 AM
User: N/A
Computer: MEGCOMPUTER
Description:
The mrtRate service failed to start due to the following error:
The system cannot find the file specified.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7000
Date: 6/1/2008
Time: 9:58:18 AM
User: N/A
Computer: MEGCOMPUTER
Description:
The LexBce Server service failed to start due to the following error:
The system cannot find the file specified.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Peter M

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Jun 1, 2008, 9:22:00 PM6/1/08

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I have a single cpu machine as well, so sounds like this won't help much.
Thanks

Daave

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Jun 1, 2008, 11:28:40 PM6/1/08

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"Peter M" <Pet...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I am running XP Home and wmiprvse.exe is sucking up a lot of cpu
>resourses at
> startup, making startup pretty slow. Seems to quiet down after several
> minutes. Any suggestions on what to do? i have goolgled wmiprvse, and
> get

> info like it is malware (which it's not) <snip>

It's malware if it is not in the following location:

C:\WINDOWS\system32\wbem

bw

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Jun 2, 2008, 11:27:58 AM6/2/08

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"Peter M" <Pet...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I am running XP Home and wmiprvse.exe is sucking up a lot of cpu resourses
>at
> startup, making startup pretty slow. Seems to quiet down after several
> minutes. Any suggestions on what to do? i have goolgled wmiprvse,

I noticed the same thing after SP2, but I only get it on occasion, and
usually only after a cold boot. Maybe it's trying to acces a network
resource, it doesn't hang, but it tries it's best to do something...

. You can disable it in services, however this seems to keep some
installers from working, and also disables the Security Center... try
setting WMI Performance Adapter, and Windows Management Instrumentation
services on manual.

Gerry

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Jun 2, 2008, 6:13:42 PM6/2/08

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Peter

What is the situation regarding a Lexmark printer? Have you uninstalled
it?

What is the situation regarding Quicken? Have you uninstalled it?

Check whether an update NVidia driver is available.
Option 2 in this link:
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

Peter M

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Jun 4, 2008, 12:53:01 PM6/4/08

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A search for wmiprvse on my system revealed the following 4 locations:

wmiprvse in C:|WINDOWS\$NtServicePackUninstall$

WMIPRVSE.EXE-0D449B4F.pf in C:|WINDOWS\Prefetch

wmiprvse in C:|WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles\i386

wmiprvse in C:|WINDOWS\system32\wbem

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Daave

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Jun 4, 2008, 11:13:17 PM6/4/08

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I should have been more specific. Those locations are fine, too. Did you
see Gerry's post?:

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain/msg/b31373ebe37e33e3

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Peter M

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Jun 5, 2008, 12:48:00 AM6/5/08

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Oops. Thanks Daave. Missed that one. I will check what Gerry is suggesting.

Peter M

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Jun 5, 2008, 1:00:00 AM6/5/08

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Gerry, thanks for the suggestions.

The Lexmark printer is long gone, and I did uninstall it at the time.
Quicken I still use, so it is currently on my machine.
I did find a driver update for the Nvidia card, and will downlaod and
install it.

Peter

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