Svchost constantly using 25% of CPU

Hello, I have an issue that I've spent hours troubleshooting and just can't figure it out. My CPU is constantly running at 25-30% and destroying my laptops battery life. According to Process Explorer it is svchost.exe eating up the CPU and points to ProfSVC
with wbemcore.dll as the start address. I've tried to dig in and figure what process is behind this but haven't had any luck. I've made an xperf capture but I don't know how to analyze it to figure out what might be causing the problem. I can't link
it yet because apparently my account isn't verified. Once it is I'll upload that but in the meantime, if someone can point me in some possible areas to look, I would appreciate it.

Hi IT789,
Regarding svchost.exe, here are some information I would like to share:
What is svchost.exe?
For the account, you may select the link and press Ctrl + Shift + K to remove Hyperlink, which looks like this:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/4f690edb-bd69-4385-9685-0610bddc8484/windows-7-dell-latitude-e6430s-bsod-when-connecting-to-hotspot?forum=w7itprohardware
Then you should be OK to post.
About Account verify, please check:
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Links
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