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Hi, my device is slowing down and the CPU cooler is very loud, I opened the Task Manager and saw Windows Modules Installer Worker using a lot of the CPU, and not that much disk (probably because I use an SSD). When running a game, the framerate drops from 240FPS (Framerate Per Second) to about 30-70. This is how my task manager looks like. I apologize if you cannot read this language, but it's only important to look at the process itself and the CPU load.
The process is located under Windows Component Store (C:\Windows\WinSxS...), and has an argument of -Embedding only, so it's not a virus or malware. There are no duplicate names of this process running, and the digital signatures, copyrights are from Microsoft Corporation.
My question is: why is it using so many system resources? Is my system unstable, or this is normal? I tried to search about this, and found nothing useful.
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Hello Abdulqadir,
I am Jaspreet Singh.
The process is evoked when an update has to be downloaded or installed.
Please check the update section of your system if there is an update being installed or downloaded it is normal for the process to take up resources.
Thanks, yeah Windows now asks me to restart to install Windows Updates, after a very while though.
