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Why does WMI Provider Host ( WmiPrvSE.exe ) keep spiking my CPU ?

Every time my computer resumes from sleep, connects to a network, or disconnects from a network, one CPU core is fully utilized for several seconds by a system network process "WmiPreSE.exe". What is the purpose of this process and what is it doing that requires this CPU usage? The system is running Windows 7 Home Premium x64 Service Pack 1 and has a quad-core AMD Phenom II N930 processor at 2.0 GHz.

Edit: The system is a custom-built HP Pavilion dv6z-3000 Select Edtion laptop.

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This is a core Windows component. You may or may not have something that actually relies on it but it's normal for it to throttle on connecting to or disconnecting from a network. (This happens when you wake the machine up so that isn't really a separate scenario.) If it bothers you that much, you can try disabling the Windows Management Instrumentation service, but I wouldn't recommend it since it might break something, and I seriously doubt this is actually harming your experience with the machine.

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