WMI provider host slowing system and lots of errors

My system is sluggish most of the time, and I'm trying to find out why.
Rebooting the computer doesn't help.

I noticed that the WMI provider host is busy (20 - 30%), so I started chasing...

((info: I'm running WIN10 version 2004 (OS Build 19041.450 on a toshiba laptop with McAfee as AV software ))

Following online suggestions, I opened event viewer and looked at the operational log and found a bunch of errors (every 6 or 7 seconds). I'll attach screenshots of what I'm seeing.

Still following directions, I went to task manager to look up the process ID that's throwing all the errors, only to find it's NOT there at all.

Not being a computer guru at all, I'm stymied. So I'll yell for help.

What do I do now?

You folks helped me a lot last time, and I figure you'll save me again, so - thanks in advance!

strangely enough - It kinda did.

Before this I always rebooted in an effort to fix the problem - with no glory.

Since I'd been rebooting, I never bothered with the WMI restart (figuring the reboot was the same as...)

This time, I did the restart too - and it seems to have cleared things up (go figure).

I've even rebooted since - to see if it popped back up... NOPE!

I'll admit that I don't get it, but I'm not going to complain. <shaking head in confusion>

Thanks, and I'll hope it doesn't happen again.

It's BACK!!!
Guess I was a little too optimistic about the fix.

WMI provider host is back up and bouncing around from 15 to 25%

process ID for error message is now 4096 - it still doesn't show on Task manager.
Otherwise, same old story,

#$$#!!!
I really don't want to have to keep kickstarting the thing to get it to behave.
Is there any way to tell just what the [censored] thing is choking on?

When I did the WMI restart before, it warned me that it was going to also restart Toshiba echo util and IP helper.
Does that shed any light on anything?

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Found it (I think)

I stopped "Toshiba ECO Util", and the problem hasn't come back since