How to Fix COM Surrogate High CPU or Disk Usage in Windows 11 [Tutorial]
30How to Fix COM Surrogate High CPU or Disk Usage in Windows 11 [Tutorial]
Commands Used:
sfc /scannow
Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth
Component Object Model or COM is a medium to enable communication between 2 processes or apps. It allows developers to create objects, a.k.a. COM objects (handles processing images, videos, and other files to generate the thumbnails) that enable users to plug into other applications and extend them. However, there’s one problem associated with it. When a COM object crashes it also causes the host process to crash. Sometimes crashing of one COM object may cause the entire Windows process to crash.
Issues addressed in this tutorial:
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COM Surrogate is a basic Windows 11 process that is in charge of showing thumbnails and similar information.
Although this is a basic process, some users have reported issues with it, so let’s fix those issues.
Before we start fixing issues with COM Surrogate, make sure that your Windows 10 is up to date, and that you have all updates installed because quite often issues with Windows 10 components are fixed with Windows Update.
This tutorial will apply for computers, laptops, desktops, and tablets running the Windows 10 and Windows 11 operating systems (Home, Professional, Enterprise, Education) from all supported hardware manufactures, like Dell, HP, Acer, Asus, Toshiba, Lenovo, Alienware, Razer, MSI, Huawei , Microsoft Surface, and Samsung.