Windows 10: Fixing wsappx high memory and CPU usage

I have seen this particular issue all over the internet. Mine started right after I converted my Windows 10 MBR drive to GPT. WSAPPX started randomly going as high as 12gb of memory usage and 100% CPU usage. Long story short, MY resolution was to disable the start-up "Send to OneNote Tool". The next reboot was perfect, and the issue has not returned. It has been 2 weeks. Hope this helps someone.

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wsappx high CPU usage

Didn't work. Also, it's not disk usage or memory usage, it's my CPU. And as I stated in my post, I already tried gpedit & I already disabled my windows store-app.

Also, my pagefile is about 10,000mb.

 

wsappx high CPU usage

Hello,

Please refer suggestions mentioned here:

https://www.thewindowsclub.com/wsappx-fix-high-...

Let us know if this helps!

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Fixing wsappx high memory and CPU usage

I recently had to move my Users folder from my C:\ drive SSD to the D:\ drive HDD as I was running out of disk pace. I did the move in safe mode by using robocopy (without following links) and then creating a junction to the D:\ drive. I was faced with three
issues straight after restarting normally into Win10 Pro.

1. The start menu stopped working - this I fixed with re-installing the Windows store apps in powershell -

Code:

Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"}

2. The search box near the start menu was un-responsive - I fixed this by resetting Cortana

3. Memory and CPU hogging by wsappx - this is the crux of this question.

As can be seen below, wsappx is consuming loads of memory - the CPU usage does peter off after a while, though it still a concern. I mentioned the manner in which I rejuvenated the start menu by running the powershell command Get-AppXPackage and
was wondering whether this may be related (PS: the command ran for a while and did complete).