Getting abnormallyhigh CPU usagefor a single vaguely named process like a WMI provider host can be a frustrating experience. This service should never use more than a few percent of your CPUs power. This article will show you why this issue occurs, how to fix it, and how to prevent it from draining your CPU resources in the future. What Is a WMI Provider? WMI is an abbreviation for Windows Management Instrumentation....

If you have a monitor with a built-in speaker, you should be able to play sound on it. However, most monitors support audio capabilities and allow you to play sound through them even if they don’t feature an in-built speaker. When playing sound through a monitor, you need to plug an external speaker into your monitor. For monitors with built-speakers, you can simply do so from the monitor itself. The method to get sound on a monitor will differ depending on the ports it has available and if it has built-in speakers....

User Access Control (UAC) is a critical security feature on Windows thatprotects the system from malicious softwareand viruses. When you attempt to install new software or make any significant changes to the system configuration, UAC will prompt you to confirm for assigning the admin rights. However, there are some workarounds that users can use to avoid the UAC elevation prompts. We will discuss these escapes in detail in today’s article and suggest how you can install software without Admin rights....

It has been the dream of our editor-in-chief, Avram Piltch, to walk around an event with the latest Tom’s Hardware headlines appearing on his conference badge. Today we make that dream come true. The Raspberry Pi Pico W is a surprisingly capable device for under $10. We’re going to use it with a few Pimoroni products, chiefly the Pico Inky Pack, a 2.9-inch, 296 x 128 pixels epaper display. We’ll also have a LiPo battery and a LiPo Amigo Pro charge controller to top up the battery and keep the news flowing....

Most of us place our quick-access items on the desktop such that we can use them whenever needed. Therefore, we constantly need to show our Desktop when multitasking. You have probably faced a situation where you open tons of files and want to view your Desktop quickly. Indeed, minimizing or closing each one will take a lot of time. But what if we tell you there are tons of shortcuts to do this?...

Uninstalling most software on your system is very easy. You can simply go to Programs and Features in the Control Panel or Apps & features in your Settings to uninstall them. However, these programs do not display all the software on your system. What’s more, you can’t uninstall many store apps using such tools. It makes PowerShell the best option to uninstall any currently installed software from Windows. Moreover, with the new PowerShell core, you can use it on other operating systems as well....

By default, a controller cannot navigate through you PC. And if you are a console gamer, switching between a mouse/keyboard and a controller could be an inconvenience. Wouldn’t it be easy if you could simply control the mouse cursor and type using the controller? Fortunately, in today’s world, it is possible. And in this article, we will guide you through a list of applications and steps to configure your controller to use it as a mouse or a keyboard....

Tom’s Hardware Verdict ID-Cooling’s Frozn A620 GDL is a well-performing air cooler that offers gold accents for users who want a little bling without ARGB lighting. Gold accents for style without ARGB lighting Strong thermal performance Moderate noise levels Cons Gold accents come with a higher price Why you can trust Tom’s HardwareOur expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products and services so you can choose the best for you....

SiSoftware Sandra benchmark results for Intel’s upcoming Arrow Lake desktop and Lunar Lake laptop CPUs have been discovered by PC part leaker@momomo_us on X(formerly Twitter). Unfortunately, these tests were run only on the CPUs' integrated graphics, and didn’t include any results for the CPU cores. The existence of these leakedbenchmarksimplies that Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake are on the way, and may reveal some key specifications. The Arrow Lake results are particularly interesting since it’s the first time this CPU (which is an Arrow Lake-S model for the desktop) has been seen in the wild....

Intel’s Arrow Lake processors are all the hype these days, but the chipmaker has been rumored to work on a new P-core-only lineup for consumers, codenamed “Bartlett Lake.” The first wave of these chips launched atCES, though in a hybrid configuration and exclusively for embedded devices through OEMs. Congatec’s latest modules bundle these processors in a 120 x 160mm COM-HPC Client Size C package for high-performance computing in a small form factor....

Intel is hard at work building Linux-ready graphics drivers for its next-generation Battlemange GPUs, which will soon arrive with Intel’s Lunar Lake CPUs.Phoronix reportsthat Intel will have a functional display driver forBattlemageonce the upcoming Linux 6.11 kernel cycle rolls in. This new display driver is by no means complete, but it provides display functionality for Battlemage GPUs for the first time in Linux, which is a big deal regardless. Right now, Intel is actively working on Direct Rendering Manager driver changes, HPD display enabling, and a number of power-efficiency-focused features for the upcoming Linux driver....

Intel finallyreleasedthe SDK (Software Development Kit) for its XeSS 2.0 stack of technologies to the public through its GitHub repository yesterday. The XeSS SDK 2.0.1 offers a more streamlined and user-friendly process for developers to integrate Intel’s latest XeSS-SR, XeSS-FG, and XeLL technologies into their games. After a bit of research, we discovered that despite all these major updates, XeSS remains a closed-source and Windows-first technology. Intel’s latest endeavors into the budget segment with theArc B580andB570in December came with a new suite ofupdatesto its XeSS stack....

Intel successfully defended its export license to Huawei after rival CPU manufacturer AMD and China critics pushed to get the license revoked,according to a report from Reuters. Thanks to an export license granted in 2019, Intel effectively has an exclusive deal to sell laptop CPUs to Huawei, which AMD says is unfair. The license will lapse later this year and likely won’t be renewed, though Intel has already made hundreds of millions of dollars on CPU sales to Huawei....