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WMI Provider Host excessive CPU
My apologies if this is the wrong place for this question but I've scoured the web and although I have found many people asking the same or very similar questions I have failed to find any answers th...
WMI Provider Host shouldn't normally use much CPU, as it shouldn't normally be doing anything. ... Locate the “Windows Management Instrumentation service” in the list, right-click it, and select “Restart”. If you see consistently high CPU usage, it's likely that another process on your system is behaving badly.
Smith_J Yes, another process is causing the problem, although it is WMI Provider that is using the excess CPU. The other process is Garmin Express and how to deal with it has been explained in the previous posts. The problem has been reported to Garmin but so far they have not released any fix for it.