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    Help! svchost.exe hogging RAM & CPU

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by thnksfrthmmrs, Oct 20, 2007.

  1. thnksfrthmmrs

    thnksfrthmmrs Notebook Evangelist

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    My friend has an old Windows 2000 and everytime he boots it up it takes up about 100 megabytes of RAM and his CPU is at 100%. I checked and it's definitely not a virus or a spyware. So, the computer becomes useless within 10 minutes as it locks up by then. Right now he's using TuneUp Utilites, Process Manager to kill one of his svchost.exe, as Task Manager simply can not kill the process. Is there a way to fix this?
     
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  2. swarmer

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    svchost.exe runs system services.

    Run "services.msc" (via Start->Run...) and you can see what services are enabled.
    You could also try booting into safe mode if you can't use the computer in regular mode... it may make it easier to tinker.

    I wouldn't necessarily rule out malware, even if you scanned and it didn't find anything.
     
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    Tranquility Notebook Consultant

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    BlackViper has a lot of information about services. You might find some help there. You can usually get good results just by Googling the name of a service if you find one on your system that is not listed in Viper's site.
     
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  4. thnksfrthmmrs

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    So I looked on the Microsoft support site and I installed some updates. It works well now!
     
    thnksfrthmmrs, Oct 20, 2007
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