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I actually found PnkBstr in C:\Windows\SysWOW64 and there were 2 instances of it. PnkBstrA.exe & PnkBstrB.exe. One was installed in 2014 & the other in June of 2016. Both are associated with the game Far Cry 3. I probably played the game in June of this year after not having played it for over a year. I'm assuming that the original PnkBstrA version was outdated so it installed an updated version. I applied "run as administrator" to both versions. When I went to services, only PnkBstrA appeared. I disabled this & did a clean reboot but the spiking began after 6 minutes.
Repeated the same instructions for WLIDSVC.EXE and WLIDSVCM.EXE but the spiking still persists. Below is the updated cleantasks list.
One weird thing I did notice, though it may not have anything to do with anything, was that after clean booting one time, the Dell Support Assist Agent icon momentarily flashed on/off on my desktop toolbar even through the service is stopped & disabled.
Image Name PID Session Name Session# Mem Usage
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System Idle Process 0 Services 0 24 K
System 4 Services 0 4,036 K
smss.exe 364 Services 0 1,280 K
csrss.exe 620 Services 0 4,444 K
csrss.exe 712 Console 1 7,980 K
wininit.exe 720 Services 0 4,968 K
winlogon.exe 768 Console 1 8,228 K
services.exe 820 Services 0 9,620 K
lsass.exe 828 Services 0 12,436 K
lsm.exe 836 Services 0 4,520 K
svchost.exe 936 Services 0 10,084 K
svchost.exe 1016 Services 0 8,096 K
svchost.exe 624 Services 0 24,792 K
svchost.exe 920 Services 0 20,016 K
svchost.exe 1028 Services 0 18,032 K
svchost.exe 1056 Services 0 34,176 K
svchost.exe 1168 Services 0 5,792 K
svchost.exe 1280 Services 0 16,456 K
spoolsv.exe 1528 Services 0 17,388 K
svchost.exe 1608 Services 0 14,520 K
svchost.exe 1708 Services 0 11,952 K
svchost.exe 1844 Services 0 10,356 K
svchost.exe 1868 Services 0 6,060 K
SearchIndexer.exe 1900 Services 0 62,552 K
SearchProtocolHost.exe 2168 Services 0 12,164 K
svchost.exe 2260 Services 0 5,284 K
svchost.exe 2532 Services 0 5,968 K
WUDFHost.exe 2620 Services 0 6,824 K
taskhost.exe 2772 Console 1 12,396 K
taskeng.exe 2832 Console 1 7,056 K
dwm.exe 2932 Console 1 32,096 K
taskeng.exe 2956 Console 1 7,680 K
procexp.exe 2992 Console 1 7,672 K
explorer.exe 3004 Console 1 97,652 K
ipoint.exe 3012 Console 1 12,608 K
itype.exe 3028 Console 1 12,640 K
svchost.exe 3424 Services 0 7,604 K
PROCEXP64.exe 3516 Console 1 14,068 K
WmiPrvSE.exe 3792 Services 0 6,968 K
taskmgr.exe 3448 Console 1 13,248 K
svchost.exe 3624 Services 0 30,032 K
WmiPrvSE.exe 2888 Services 0 6,384 K
audiodg.exe 3644 Services 0 20,976 K
cmd.exe 3844 Console 1 3,132 K
conhost.exe 2132 Console 1 5,912 K
SearchFilterHost.exe 2112 Services 0 5,764 K
tasklist.exe 3344 Console 1 6,408 K
WmiPrvSE.exe 3088 Services 0 6,936 K
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