http://blogs.msdn.com/ntdebugging/archive/2009/04/24/using-netmon-to-figure-out-the-source-of-high-cpu-in-wmiprvse-exe.aspxRecently I was working with a customer who had a file server experiencing high CPU in the WMIprvse.exe process . We received multiple user dumps and noted that someone or something was running the same query again and again. We needed to figure out whaten-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.msdn.com/ntdebugging/archive/2009/04/24/using-netmon-to-figure-out-the-source-of-high-cpu-in-wmiprvse-exe.aspx#9569213Sun, 26 Apr 2009 15:36:21 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9569213Alex<p>Netmon has helped me to solve the problem with delays in starting of MS Office Word. It appeared to be, that somehow this application or Windows Vista itself wanted to find the home network printer, which was of course not accessible in the customer's network. Removing this printer solved the problem.</p>