Solved Store Broker causing very high cpu usage?

So I booted up my pc this afternoon, and could not help but notice with my monitoring software, my cpu activity was going nuts.
I opened task manager, and sorted by cpu usage, and " Store Broker" was using app 35% of my cpu just sitting at desktop.
I ended it in task manager - what the heck is this and why would it be running?

Thanks for any help on this,

dburne458 said:

So I booted up my pc this afternoon, and could not help but notice with my monitoring software, my cpu activity was going nuts.
I opened task manager, and sorted by cpu usage, and " Store Broker" was using app 35% of my cpu just sitting at desktop.
I ended it in task manager - what the heck is this and why would it be running?

Thanks for any help on this,

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Could be a number of things:
- your last 'trip' to the Store you didn't sign out,
- you may not have completely closed the Store app,
- you may have a bunch of updates pending,
- there may be more reasons......

Ok thanks for the info.

It would seem, any time I open and close ( properly) a Metro app, it leaves this Store Broker service running and consuming a lot of CPU usage...

This morning I clicked on an email link on a forum, it opened up the email Metro app, I closed it propery, noticed shortly afterwards my cpu usage was going crazy - checked task manager and sure enough the Store Broker was running...

Yesterday, I was checking out some news stories in the News app, same thing happened after closing it as well.

Wonder why this is happening now?

Just an update, so far it seems this solution has fixed this issue for me:

Why cause Store Broker (wshost.exe) high CPU usage? | How to Fix