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What app? I've never had anything taking up 50% of my CPU like that running in the background.

Superfetch.
This kills the laptop.

@Hayabusiness https://media.tenor.com/images/03ec4cf477465c77a9ef32d69e4894ab/tenor.gif

Was it "system idle process"?

@ryu_highabusa
LoL... are you mocking me ?

Anyway no... it was unescapp.exe.... I terminated it in my task manager but then it started up again when I wasn't looking.... so I cut that fucker out and pasted on my desktop.... I'l leave it there until I figure out what to do with it.

Honestly I made that mistake in the past and that's why it was my go-to. That's kind of how I find out what it did... lmao

Uh....that's a core component of WMI. You definitely should not be killing that process.

@Raansu yeah I read that yesterday... that being said... whatever it is... it has defiled the sanctity of betsy (thats my Rig) and must SUFFA!!!!

@ryu_highabusa
Ah yes... back during more innocent times I did that too... ;)

Its an important process. If you keep killing it you're going to have problems with a lot of programs. It shouldn't be pegging your cpu for over 50% though. Make sure its sitting in system 32 and do a sfc /scannow in command line. If its not in system32 you might have a virus.

Makes no difference to me... Wether its a bit coin miner or a vital system process.... anything that leeches 50% of my resources (and tries to hide while doing it) has no business being in my Rig.

It doesn't try to hide, its right there in the details tab. If you have home edition of windows it shouldn't be doing much and at most taking a few kilobits of memory and shouldn't even be pegging the cpu. Killing the process instead of finding out the cause is really a bad idea.

LoL... not after I found what it is doing... and yeah it was definitely hiding. I had to toggle the option that shows processes from all users to find the bastard.

You mean the more details button? Task manager by default shows all users/systems that are running a process. Again, if you had a core windows process pegging your cpu to that extreme then there's something else going on, most likely malware or a virus. Unsecapp.exe is a harmless process that generally just sits idle. Most of its WMI functions are almost completely used in pro and enterprise windows version.

Killing a legit windows process that runs WMI will 100% lead to other problems down the line on your windows. Most likely a lot of blue screens and some programs just not working correctly when they need to run off WMI.

LoL... I'll risk it... and I'l let you knoe if things go south so you can say "I told you so" !

But I don't want to say I told you so lol. I'm in IT, I like troubleshooting and fixing stuff and helping people out.