Annoying problem!

[pesgores]

I have had problems for some time now, but only recently decided to take an actual look at it.

When I play a 3D game, I have a nice performance, but every 5-10 seconds, depending on the game, massive drop of FPS occurs.

First, I asked for help on the particular game forums (Minecraft) that had this happening most often, and they helped me find out why my games were running that way.

I spotted, at the Task Manager, that every 5-10 seconds, even without playing a videogame, CPU total usage spikes to 100%, and at the same type, this process called WmiPrvSE.exe also uses nearly 100% of that total usage.

During the break between spikes, that process just sits there doing nothing, then BAMM! it goes wild again.

I suspect this has affected my internet connection as well, since when I input any text into any textbox on any website, some letters aren’t inputted. I have to write this post on MS Word so I don’t have to correct half of my words. Also, general connection slowness and total loss of connection from time to time.

I am so convinced WmiPrvSE is doing it. What can I do about it? Why is WmiPrvSE going wild now if he never had before? Virus? Please help ASAP. Thanks in advance.

 

[Tarkhan]

It is a windows process - but often malware will disguise itself as this process to make people think it's not malware.

http://www.neuber.com/taskmanager/process/wmiprvse.exe.html

 

[pesgores]

I ran a complete virus scan to my computer, after I scanned the file. All supposed malware was deleted.

But the problem continues! I am getting really frustrated at this!

 

[Abaddon]

Turn if off manually, does that temporary sort it?

What needs it to run? Can't you block it?

 

[pesgores]

I can't even open the file even though it's an application.

I delete it at the Task Manager, but it will come back a few seconds later.

I can't figure out wha makes it run, either. How can I find that out?

 

[Genocidicbunny]

Get an actual task manager such as Process Explorer. It should give you more info on the process, including the file location.

 

[NBAfan]

What kind of GPU and power supply do you have? I had the same kind of problem. It turned out my power supply was not powerful enough for my GPU.