wmiprvse.exe and helpsvc

are driving me crazy. Something is triggering WMI to launch in the
background who then recruits helpsvc to tag team the CPU to its knees with
my PC face down on the mat. I'm talking 100% resource usage, dead in the
water box that becomes a zombie for whatever some software author decided
was more important than anything else. I have Process Explorer, and when
they invade, I kill them. It's hard to miss their invasion, so if I am on
my PC, I notice. But they are undoubtedly making night forays as well, and
God knows what they are up to. I have been googling for info on this, and I
found this post from back in 2004:

> Thanks. I finally figured out my memory leak problem. I
> turned on the WMI debugging and it was logging some
> registry keys thousands and thousands of time and just
> eating up memory. I tracked the registry keys down to be
> network devices. I had an Intel Anywhere wifi device I
> was using for my broadband connection. On a whim, I
> removed it and installed a Linksys I had laying around,
> and the problem went away!

> Miraculous! I have had this problem for about 9 months or
> so. The problem has boggled my mind, but it's now solved.

So I tried to find info on turning on WMI debugging, but no luck.

How can I stop these undead beasties?

TIA for any help at all.

Brian

I can help you KILL that process without other software

RUN THE COMMAND ON DOS PROMPT

msconfig

Go to services box and look for two processes call ed Windows Management
something or other, there are two close together, near the bottom, click off
those boxes so that you deactivate.

Now reboot your pc and when done enter windows system 32 directory and
delete the ****ing WMIPRVSE **** OF A THING

Nobody really knows what the **** this process does, all the experts differ
in opinion, I start to feel they use this for "Spying" or something like that
but I am not very sure

"Someone" wrote:

> are driving me crazy. Something is triggering WMI to launch in the
> background who then recruits helpsvc to tag team the CPU to its knees with
> my PC face down on the mat. I'm talking 100% resource usage, dead in the
> water box that becomes a zombie for whatever some software author decided
> was more important than anything else. I have Process Explorer, and when
> they invade, I kill them. It's hard to miss their invasion, so if I am on
> my PC, I notice. But they are undoubtedly making night forays as well, and
> God knows what they are up to. I have been googling for info on this, and I
> found this post from back in 2004:
>
> > Thanks. I finally figured out my memory leak problem. I
> > turned on the WMI debugging and it was logging some
> > registry keys thousands and thousands of time and just
> > eating up memory. I tracked the registry keys down to be
> > network devices. I had an Intel Anywhere wifi device I
> > was using for my broadband connection. On a whim, I
> > removed it and installed a Linksys I had laying around,
> > and the problem went away!
>
> > Miraculous! I have had this problem for about 9 months or
> > so. The problem has boggled my mind, but it's now solved.
>
> So I tried to find info on turning on WMI debugging, but no luck.
>
> How can I stop these undead beasties?
>
> TIA for any help at all.
>
> Brian
>
>
>