HP Power Assistant and Wireless Assistant services causing WmiPrvSe high CPU load

[seaan]

Hello,

I casually noticed that the process named WmiPrvSe was having frequent spikes of CPU usage, going from 0 to about 35% every 5 seconds or so.

I did an in-depth troubleshooting and could trace the cause back to two HP Assistant services: Power Assistant and Wireless Assistant. Stopping both services puts WmiPrvSe to rest.

I have disabled both of them since they are not critical but I'm wondering if anyone else noticed the same behaviour.

Thanks

See below my system specs:

HP Elitebook 8440p , 8Gb RAM

OS Windows 7 64bit

S.

[Mumbodog]

This is a known problem with older versions of wireless assitant, upgrade your wireless assitant software.

Try this version

All your drivers

[seaan]

Thank you Mumbodog

I installed the updates and problem is gone.

Regards

Sergio

[Mumbodog]

You are welcome Sergio.

Welcome to the HP forums.