{"id":972,"date":"2019-12-10T12:56:33","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T12:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.in-stat.com\/?p=972"},"modified":"2019-12-24T05:47:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T05:47:15","slug":"solution-tips-and-tricks-to-fix-windows-modules-installer-worker-high-cpu-usage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.in-stat.com\/solution-tips-and-tricks-to-fix-windows-modules-installer-worker-high-cpu-usage\/","title":{"rendered":"[Solution] Tips and Tricks To Fix Windows Modules Installer Worker High CPU Usage"},"content":{"rendered":"
Your system might have gotten incredibly slow and you might have opened your task manager to realize that Windows Modules Installer worker is using a large percentage of your CPU and you might have caught yourself wondering, “What is Windows Module Installer Worker? and how do I stop it from using up a large percentage of my CPU?”<\/span><\/p>\n Windows Modules Installer Worker is also known as TiWorker.exe<\/strong> or the WMI worker<\/strong>. It is a Windows automatic service tasked with installing new updates to your computer. It enables installation, modification and removal of Windows updates and optional components.<\/span><\/p>\n The process can take up more than 50% of your CPU storage sometimes causing the Disk Usage error especially on slow computers with slow hard drives.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n If your computer’s fan spin up and your computer gets hot for no apparent reason or your computer slags and slows down, sometimes coming to a halt and even rebooting the system does not seem to help, the Windows Modules Installer Worker might be the culprit.<\/span><\/p>\n If you allow it to run, the process eventually finishes and stops using up your CPU and disk resources until the next update. How long the process takes depend on the speed of your computer’s CPU and storage as well as how many updates it needs to install.<\/span><\/p>\n If it is a nuisance, and you find that it is slowing down your work, you could try a couple of the fixes listed below:<\/span><\/p>\n Doing this would refresh windows update on your computer. Windows automatically downloads and stores new updates in its software distribution folder, sometimes, these files get corrupted and may result in high CPU usage. If this is the issue, you could fix it by taking the steps outlined below. We stop te windows update first so we do not get any errors while deleting the folder.<\/span><\/p>\nWhat is Windows Modules Installer Worker?<\/span><\/h2>\n
How To Fix Windows Modules Installer Worker High CPU Usage<\/span><\/h2>\n
Delete the Software Distribution Folder –\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n
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