
Windows Update High CPU Usage Troubleshooting Checklist
If your system feels sluggish and Task Manager shows high CPU usage from TiWorker.exe

If your system feels sluggish and Task Manager shows high CPU usage from TiWorker.exe

You see a message that your Chrome profile is corrupted, or Chrome behaves oddly—crashes, missing...

You open Windows Security and see an error: "Module not found" or "Windows Defender module not fo...

You’re trying to send an email in Outlook, but you get a “permission denied” error. The message m...

You open Event Viewer and see Event ID 101 under TaskScheduler with a message about an invalid co...

If Outlook is consuming 90-100% CPU and slowing your system, a corrupted PST file is a common cau...