Starting brave pegs cpu for process - WMI provider host

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Description of the issue

starting brave browser also pegs cpu for process - WMI provider host. this WMI providor host process doesn’t seem to normally appear in taskmgr but when I start brave it appears at the top and starts consuming cpu about 35% and stays there until I end task and stop it -after which brave keeps running fine. another wrinkle I’m not sure if it has any effect on this problem - when I am not using internet I turn off the connection using this command -
netsh interface set interface “Ethernet” admin=disable
netsh interface show interface
and then when I want to connect to internet I enable the connection with this command -
netsh interface set interface “Ethernet” admin=enable
Yes IE does NOT cause this problem to happen, only brave and only recently, like this was not happening last week ?

Exact URL of the website in question

any URL just start brave

Did the issue present with default Shields settings? [Default states are: Block: Ads/Trackers, 3rd Party Cookies, 3rd Party Fingerprinting Allow: Encrypt Connections enabled (HTTPS), Scripts] (yes/no)

I don’t know

Does the site function as expected when Shields are turned off? (yes/no)

I just checked shileds are “up” I will post this and try again with them off

Is there a specific Shields configuration that causes the site to break? If so, tell us that configuration. (yes/no)

I don’t use these I have no idea

Does the site function as expected when using Chrome? (yes/no)

yes for IE11 I don’t know about chrome

What Operating System and Brave version/Build are you using when you encounter the issue?(See the About Brave page in the main menu)

windows 8.1 with fcked up updating stuff who knows I have lots of updates but now the update crap hangs and doesn’t work anymore and I am not reinstalling all this windows sht to fix their crppy problems

brave version
netsh interface set interface “Ethernet” admin=enable

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ok now this problem seems intermittent. I thought it was related to turning on/off the internet connection but now don’t know. when the connection is off - the little icon has red x - when the connection is “starting” - the little icon has yellow triangle - when the connection is “running” - the little icon is just the little icon
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starting brave when the internet connect is “starting” has the yellow triangle, brave starts ok but try to go website then get the connection invalid with little dinosaur - I thought this sequence was triggering the WMI process - and it was repeatable several times or I would not have done all this typing for this bug

I can’t repeatedly isolate it & can’t post images :frowning:

good luck finding this bug - the workaround is just to whack the WMI process, it doesn’t seem to bother anything else

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