Windows 10: CPU Usage Abnormally High - No clue what it could be

Hi,


Recently my CPU usage has been pretty high to the point where games that I'm playing have a noticeable FPS drop.


It started around a couple days ago, I didn't change anything or install any drivers or unusual programs, so it seems to not be a program or something weird messing it up. I've also done a Malwarebytes my anti-malware program scan to check for any malware/viruses/cryptomining programs running in the background but that turned up with nothing.


In terms of system specs I'm running an AMD Fx-8350 with a GTX 1650 GPU Windows 10 OS as well. I know my CPUs pretty very old, I've had it for a coupleish years so I don't know if it's just starting to slow down now?


I've attached some screenshots of task manager's processes and performance page with the resource monitor as well. With the Resource Monitor the CPU cores were all in the same condition as the ones in the screenshot - so around 100%.


Let me know if any of you kind folk need anything else or if you have any idea what this could be!! Also, when getting these screen shots I noticed that my processes and performance tabs weren't updating, hence the small graphs, so not really too sure what to make of that one, not sure if it's a related issues or a quick tickbox needed!




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high cpu usage

After downloading windows 10, anytime I run any programs, I get high CPU usage. It does not matter whether it is google chrome, task manager, playing games, whatever. Anything seems to spike the CPU usage. I have already run malwarbytes and my antivirus
programs and find no viruses. Any suggestions? Thanks.

 

Abnormal CPU Usage

Hello, I am currently running my laptop from Safe Mode where my problem does not persist. Last Thursday, 31st of January, for the first time ever, a few minutes after my PC booted up, I saw the CPU usage icon pop up in the little corner with the other
icons where you see it usually pop up when there's high CPU usage, but it was there for no reason. I mean, other than Chrome running a YouTube video page, I had no other application that I executed. What happened then was, the CPU usage jumped between random
numbers and I experienced slowdowns, until it reached 100% of CPU usage, and the PC crashed. I tried rebooting. Even when I don't do anything at all other than turn on my PC in normal startup, the CPU usage continues to jump a few minutes after startup, jumping
in random numbers of percentages before reaching 100% CPU usage, and then the PC crashes. This persisted this Friday and only in Safe Mode it's not happening. This is new problem for me that I have yet to come across and I don't know what might be the cause
but I have some suspicions. I noticed particularly that the TrustedInstaller service seems to me to be acting abnormally and taking up some higher CPU usage or memory, but I might be wrong. I think I might be right about this because I've noticed that when
I clicked the TrustedInstaller properties to go a directory that's related it, it was created right then, on the 31st of January, i.e. this Thursday, after snooping around a bit more I've seen that some Windows Update files have also been created that day.
Now I recall seeing TrustedInstaller much earlier before Thursday and having no problem with it or related to it for a long time, I think I noticed that this service exists sometime last year, so it appears odd to me that it tells me that all of that has been
created last Thursday with no prior history. On top of that, I seemed to experience abnormal internet connection, random disconnection every ten minutes or so, before immediate connection again, again all happening from this Thursday.

Even further than that and also adds on to the abnormality is that, as I try to type this message, when I type every several letters that I type, the position that I'm typing from changes, it jumps to somewhere on some earlier line that I typed. Only
noticed that now as I'm typing.

Piecing all the pieces of the puzzle together, I suspect I might have malware or a virus, perhaps some sort of highjacker (?), on my computer. However this explanation seems to me unlikely to be the case, because on this laptop I have not once ever willingly
accessed any dodgy website and always kept my anti-malware and anti-virus softwares turned on, along with the Microsoft Security Client, and I never downloaded an untrustworthy file on it either. And when my security tools did block potentially dangerous websites
and files, I avoided them.

 

Windows Explorer high CPU Usage in Windows 10

Hi Andrew,

Usually, too many background processes can boost your CPU usage. Since you already disabled the apps that are not necessary on startup,
we suggest checking the applications running once you have successfully boot Windows 10. To do this, simply follow the steps below:

• Click on the Start button and type Task Manager on the search box.
• On the Task Manager window, you should see the programs running.
• Click on the More details drop-down button to see the total number of apps running and their real-time CPU usage.

From there, you should see what applications are running on high CPU usage. You can also
restart the Windows Management Instrumentation service and see if your CPU performance will improve. Follow the instructions below to restart the service:

• Click on the Start button and type Services.
• Scroll down the list and look for Windows Management Instrumentation.
• Right click on it and select Restart.

Should you have further questions, please let us know.