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Every morning when I go to access my laptop, the fan is running and it's hot. Task Manager shows "Microsoft Windows based script host (32 bit)" is using a high percentage of the CPU time. Once the task is ended, the CPU goes back to normal and continues to be normal throughout the day. The next morning it does the same thing. This has been happening for the last 14 days. How can I troubleshoot to see what program/process is causing the issue. I am running Windows 11 64-bit.
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
Answer accepted by question author
When it's running, open a Powershell prompt with "run as administrator" and run this command.
Get-WmiObject Win32_Process -Filter "name like '%script%'" | select name, processid, commandline
The script being executed will show up in the commandline output. See what's in the file.