I did answer: I don't know. I wasn't the one that set-up my PC. I re-enabled sppsvc and will see how it works tomorrow. As I said, this seems to be a common-ish issue likely related to Fall Update 1709...
This most likely is the Antivirus acting increasingly aggressive agains KMS. Check it's quaratine for any captures. Is there any KMS related Task in Task Scheduler Library? Enter CMD in the Search and right-click the cmd.exe and 'Run as Administrator'. Enter (after sppsvc is re-enabled): Code: cscript slmgr.vbs /dlv And post the outcome here.
Read this article Fix: High CPU Usage by Sppsvc.exe ‘software protection platform service’ on appuals.com
That's how I got here; it didn't help. The others even disagreed with those methods, if you read back.
Why don't you just disconnect from the network and exclude the file path for the KMS service and process path in Windows defender. In my case: %systemroot%\AutoKMS\AutoKMS.exe Code: REG ADD "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Exclusions\Paths" /v "%systemroot%\AutoKMS\AutoKMS.exe" /t REG_DWORD /d "0" /f REG ADD "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Exclusions\Processes" /v "%systemroot%\AutoKMS\AutoKMS.exe" /t REG_DWORD /d "0" /f
That looks very suspicious. I would recommend to ask the one that set up that PC what activation was used. The error shouldn't appear at all. Looks like you should start over with a fresh new install.
I am not sure but I can try that, I guess. He doesn't quite recall. :/ Yeah... Dunno man. Asking me to reinstall Windows is like asking me to cut off my own finger. Don't wanna bother anyone with sob-story bulls**t, but it is what it is, depression related. I'm contemplating just buying a legit copy at this point... Is a Windows key guaranteed to transition to "W11" or whatever?
It probably got nothing to do with fake activation. When you open up your browser, Windows Defender and its services will act like any of the internet security suit programs out there. Hence the increased CPU usage. I would only be worried if it's constantly hogging your CPU. I don't use Defender myself so I don't have those services running.
I mean, dunno... It has been reported that the fake/KMS activation has something to do with it. Plus, that service jumping up to 25-30% and getting my whole CPU up to 80% at points is more than annoying.
Can't imagine that it has to do with the KMS activating better look for traces of criptominers malware or virussen could even be software you have installed in the past
It's not a general KMS activation problem. Since you don't know what tool was used on your machine, there's not much we can do .
I don't think I have a malware/virus/cryptominer issue, I checked into that. Yes, I'll keep a monitor on the situation and most likely just reinstall or buy Windows. Thank you for all of your effort.