Another computer query

[Brockett]

The clock on my laptop is 6 minutes fast.
I've never seen it to be incorrect before.
Is it about to die?
or
What should I do about it?

[Ridaz]

Hi Dave

You can set it here or at the least, check what your laptop settings are following this process.

https://www.techjunkie.com/fix-incorrect-windows-clock/

Hope it helps

[Brockett]

Thanks Ridaz. But.... I did the old switch off wait a few minutes and switch on again and it seems to have righted itself. Very curious.

[Brockett]

Windows 10.   Over the last few days the PC has developed a stammer with everything taking forever.  Task Manager shows something called WMI Provider Host    is using between 17% and 28% of CPU alternating every  2 seconds. Power usage is shown as 'very high. I have Googled it and sort of know what it does and have found many many PC users complaining of the same fault without being able to find a ' safe cure'. So far the fixes offered date back to 2013 and are shown by "Malwarebytes" to be "trojans and are shut out. I suspect the fault is so widespread that naughty people are pretending to offer a fix while instead inserting a program that "pulls your pants down".

Has anyone else had this problem and how did you fix it?

[Brockett]

The recommended fix for this is to restart Windows Management Instrumentation which located in the services section ( services.msc).
However when the restart option is selected there is a message that the action is not possible. Avira antivirus and Malwarebytes  are programs that I have installed and these are somehow locked into the WMI Host process alond with a system program ( IP Helper) .
I uninstalled Avira and Malwarebytes one at a time and tried for WMI reset. No change but it did allow me to restart  Windows Management Instrumentation and then restart the PC When I restarted the PC the problem was gone.
However I now have no Antivirus or Malware removal tool.
I am thinking that the WMI was acting up after a microsoft update and the other two programs were not the issue but were preventing  the recommended fix ie. restart of the WMI . I will try to reiinstall the Avira antivirus and see what happens. 

[Mr Nick]

I have 3 instances of WMI running: one of which is 32 bit. Only one shows using any CPU resources at about 0.1 - 0.2%, and there's 22MB RAM over all 3. I got rid of Malwarebytes a little while back as it conflicted with something else, probably my Kaspersky have.

Windows 10 Home 1809: up to date, but I haven't installed the 1909 'features update'.