WMI Provider Host

[Deathwing1306]

Hey, so I just discovered this WMI Provider Host thing in my task manager. What is it ?

So this is the way I discovered it:

I was casually playing Dead by Daylight and then suddenly in the middle of the game my game froze. I heard the game still, but it was frozen and I couldn't do anything. After a while I couldn't even hear the game anymore, but I still saw the frozen game on my screen. I tried to press the windows key to get on my desktop, I also tried ALT + TAB, but it didn't take me on my desktop. After few seconds of spamming Windows key and ALT + TAB I finally got out of the game on my second monitor. After I saw my cursor on my second monitor the cursor was lagging af. I had no idea why so I just restarted my PC with a restart button.

After my PC booted again I launched DBD again and started playing. After one game of DBD I quit the game with Quit Game button and the game closed successfully. The problem with lagging cursor appeared again when I was already on my desktop. So I opened task manager to see what is the problem. Then I saw some kind of WMI Provider Host thing running in my task manager and I haven' seen it before. I shut down my computer and then I started the computer again. After my PC booted again, I opened task manager and I saw that the WMI Provider Host is still there.

I searched on google what it is and I saw that it might even be a some kind of virus.

Is it possible that it's a virus or something ? It's also taking quite a bit of CPU usage.

Thanks!

[Cathulhu]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Management_Instrumentation

[Illusion of Progress]

It's a native part of Windows (assuming it's not malware with a process name pretending to be a random Windows process), and it may not have necessarily been the DIRECT cause of the problem, but one of the symptoms may have been that process showing high resource use.

I'd check Event Viewer to see if it has any clues from what occurred, and may be more directly involved, during the time the game froze initially.

[Deathwing1306]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Illusion of Progress:

It's a native part of Windows (assuming it's not malware with a process name pretending to be a random Windows process), and it may not have necessarily been the DIRECT cause of the problem, but one of the symptoms may have been that process showing high resource use.

I'd check Event Viewer to see if it has any clues from what occurred, and may be more directly involved, during the time the game froze initially.

I checked the Event Viewer thing and there is many errors. I also saw on the internet that I should check by that ID in Event Viewer something in task manager in Details section with the same ID, but there is nothing with same ID.

[Illusion of Progress]

Event Viewer will always log a lot of things. It's what it does. Seeing numerous warnings or something even errors isn't always an issue. However, look for a critical or error log from the time of the freeze; that will be the pertinent logged information.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Uneducated Windows users need to just Google Search the names of any EXE or Service you see in Task Manager and it will all be explained to you.