Windows 10: microsoft edge is repeatedly opening in task manager and eating 90% of my cpu.

I don't even use edge. I've been dealing with this for a while I was just closing it in task manager but it keeps coming back. I tried disabling startup boosts as well as background processes, I'm out of ideas help pls.

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90% CPU usage until I open task manager

When I open task manager my cpu usage is at 90% for like a second and then it goes back down to 5%. During that time I can see that Task Manager and Runtime Broker is at high power usage and then they go back down. This is NOT slowing down my pc but I'm
afraid that it could be a malware or something in the background. I even tried scanning for viruses and my pc is clean.

 

microsoft edge

Hi Navid,

Thanks for posting your query on Microsoft Community.

I would suggest you to try restarting Microsoft Edge Browser and check if it helps.

Follow the below steps:

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  Open task manager right click on Microsoft Edge and go to details click on microsoftedgeCP.exe and click end task
  
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  Restart your Computer and check if it helps.
  

Hope it helps, reply to us with the status of your issue. We will be happy to assist you.

 

CPU at 100% that goes away when opening Task Manager

Thanks for your answer @Jay#222. I understand that a computer is doing a lot in the background. In that case above, I was using Adobe Lightroom which is heavy on the CPU but I might get this when I'm just using Google Chrome googling things. Its weird to
me because upon opening the Task Manager, my CPU calms down when it might have been working hard for quite some time. My CPU might be working hard for 10 minutes and then upon opening Task Manager, it calms down. I'm sure if it listed the CPU usage prior to
opening the Task Manager, it would be 90%-100% usage all prior. Is it something like the Task Manager flushes processes and that's why it drop significantly? And I mean it drops to the point where the fan will calm down and my laptop will not lag much.