Few Windows Questions

Is it normal for many different SVCHOSTS to be running? One of them is taking up 150k of memory (0% of cpu). That is the highest one. The other ones are at around 15k or lower. Ran NOD32 and didn't find viruses. And system IDLE Process with CPU at 95 is normal right? That means 95% of the cpu isnt being used?

 

It's normal.

 

I believe you can run Task Manager/Processes to at least get a general idea about what is using the memory. Having several instances of SVCHOSTS running at the same time is normal, as RAMBO said.

 

Normal. If you want to see what they're doing, maybe check out a program called ProcessExplorer

 

Just what I was going to suggest. This little utility is a thing of beauty. It was written by Mark Russinovich, one of the co-authors of Windows Internals - he knows (or seems to know ) the guts of Windows like a proctologist knows ... well, this is a family channel, so I won't go any further up that road.

At any rate, the utility is SysInternals' Process Explorer v11.20, which you can d/l directly from here. While you're on that 'site, you might check out some of the other stuff SysInternals has put out - for free, no less.

 

Open a a DOS box (command prompt window) and type in tasklist /svc to see the services associated with each instance.

 

Cool thanks for the responses, everything seems to be normal. Now on a side note, is leaving the notebook in hibernation instead of Shut down when i go to bed or something bad?

 

Hiernation is fine for that, it shuts down the notebook but saves wat you have in ram. The only thing is that your ram will probably get cluttered over time so it is advisable to restart (or shut down) every once in a while

 

That's a good suggestion, particularly if you've got something running that has a memory leak; left long enough, it might conceivably end up consuming all available memory.