If you have recently updated OneDrive and are having issue like high CPU usage which can slow down the system considerably, you should look in your task manager if OneDriveSetup.exe is the culprit or not. There might be chances that your OneDrive app using high CPU resources and slowing down your system. The process of OneDriveSetup.exe is hogging the CPU for hours. The reason behind this issue can be due to an incomplete installation of OneDrive app or due to the large amount of data which you have to sync. There may be some corrupt files of OneDrive which are causing the issue or may be OneDriveSetup.exe is damaged. Whatever the reason is, here are some solutions which I am providing you so you can pull out yourself from the high CPU usage by OneDriveSetup.exe.

Delete OneDrive setup files

If some files are corrupted, then you have to delete them and restart the OneDriveSetup.exe in order to give a fresh start to your OneDrive. Follow below steps to do it.

Delete OneDrive setup files Unlink and reset OneDrive

This solution will help you immediately and high CPU usage will go.

Another solution to stop consuming high CPU usage is to unlink your current OneDrive account from OneDrive app and then again reset it. To do this, follow the below steps. Above both solutions are simple and easy to use. Go for any of them to use your OneDrive smoothly. After applying solutions you will no longer face CPU hogging for hours or high memory consumption. Thank you.