High WMI Provider Host CPU usage, error involving IWbemServices

[BrentPeters]

I am troubleshooting high WMI Provider Host CPU usage. I looked in WMI-Activity under the event log and I see the whole screen filled with this error:Id = {00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}; ClientMachine = BATTLESTATION; User = NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE; ClientProcessId = 44268; Component = Unknown; Operation = Start IWbemServices::ExecQuery - ROOT\StandardCimv2 : SELECT * FROM MSFT_NetAdapterStatisticsSettingData WHERE Name = 'Ether

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