A little CPU helping optimization...

Today, I was playing Medal Of Honor Airborne and it got hitching because my R1 has a dual core. I found out that wmiprvse.exe was taking up 13% of my CPU usage. I deleted it from System32 and I'm getting a MUCH better performance rate in Medal Of Honor Airborne, no more hitching and microstutter. This will definitely help R2/R3 users as well. I feel great learning this little tip and I thought to share it with you guys This might help a lot with CPU intensive games with an extra 13% CPU usage going towards the game. Post back if it helps!

 

Are you sure the file you deleted wasn't actually a virus? If that is a normal Windows file it shouldn't be chewing up 13% of your CPU.

 

its a windows file, i thought it was part of the sound operation or windows media center/player. i dont remember exactly.

 

WMIPRVS W.EXE is a virus Unless WMIPRVSE.EXE is located anywhere but :\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem

Or so says this webpage
http://www.neuber.com/taskmanager/process/wmiprvse.exe.html

 

No it wasn't a virus, but just another fail Windows error.

 

So what exactly does this WMIPRVSE.EXE do?

 

Windows Management Instrumentation Provider Service. Basicaly it's windows built in middle man between programs and executables. It logs events for review I consider it to be safe nagware/spyware from microsoft.

 

So is it safe to delete? I'm just curious I have no need to now but I have mine taking up about 8000k memory just during idle.

 

mine is 4K I have the same question if its safe to delete

 

That's a loaded question. It's safe to clear it out of the task manager but you may get related errors with the program that is running it. You would be better served, to figure out what application is using it and finding the solution there. If you have one that is a resource hog end it and see what programs are effected.

I find it a good idea to uncheck the junk in my MSCONFIG startup, reboot then go about my buisness. As I open programs I can see which one it is. If it's there when you start up your pc with an empty startup que, that points to a virus or spyware.

As I don't have my M11X yet my hands are a bit tied, from helping you more.

Edit
I just wanted to add that this can be used by thousands of programs. It can be used to make sure your mp3 gets to the correct player, uses the correct program for displaying websites or checking for copyright protection on your new game. If you open a program that contains a virus it can show a point of use and destination. If it's using alot of your system resources, it's probably just registry errors with the related program or executable. I for instance had a problem with this with Blizzard's background downloader. It was trying to run a back ground download that was getting blocked by Norton. Norton wasn't asking for run permission so two copies just sat there eating up resources in deadlock.

 

I think developers can leverage this to provide different types of alerts. I agree with the idea of sorting what application(s) are using before delete - or better yet disable.

 

What I suggest, is that when you're about to game, you delete it, and after you have finished, put it back in system32\Wbem (or sometimes it can be just in System32) and re-run it. It chews up at least 10% of both cores, total performance killer.

 

At idle its showing 0% and 2.5mb. I might check for this with a game sometime.

 

Kill it and then rename it. Don't delete it.

 

guys its very very simple... just turn off the service in services.msc
this is one i always turn off when i do a fresh install...