PresentationFontCach.exe hogging CPU

I do volunteer work in a few local retirement communities helping people with their computers.  I've noticed recently, two computers that have been unusually slow.  The CPU usage was close to 100%, even if no application was running.  When I ran the resource monitor, it appeared that a process called PesentationFontCache.exe consumed a huge percentage of the CPU usage.  When I tried to stop this process, it has restarted immediately itself.

Can someone give me advice on this?  What is - this and it is likely is the root of the computers slow?

THX,

Mike T GOES.

I suspect that PresentationFontCache is not a native Windows file. Where it resides on the hard drive? If it is not in a system folder then I would disable the application via msconfig.exe.

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