Shell Infrastructure Host is using more than 50% of the CPU. Fixes: Uninstall the Photos app, End the SIHost Task, Repair Windows system files, Reset the PC
Anyone ever see this? Anytime I access one of my camera folders that have thousands of meta tagged images in it, Shell Infrastructure Host process starts running like wild and eating up memory like wild. This only seems to happen in folders with TONS of meta tagged files in them, and once it star.
Peek at the running processes in Task Manager on Windows and you’ll likely see the Shell Infrastructure Host process. If you’re curious what sihost.exe is, what it does, and perhaps why it sometimes uses a lot of CPU resources, here’s what you need to know.
Due to a memory leak bug with the default Photos app, users face the Shell Infrastructure Host High CPU usage issue when browsing through a large number of