Svchost

Hey guys

My prob is that i got 8 svchost.exe's running after start up, ive tryed disableing some of thoes services that i do not need and ive cleaned all other startups that i didnt want to start, but now im stuck and cant seem to find any solution on how to cut down thoes

With thoes svchosts i got 39 processes running after bootup

Anyone got an idea ?

 

Did you use msconfig to disable these programs at startup?
Tim

 

svchost is all windows process into one process. Go to Run, type cmd, press enter, type tasklist/svc This should bring a whole list of lites. Look at the svchosts and it will tell you what windows processes are running under it.

 

Yes Tim, i did use msconfig to disable them

And they seems to be disabled

Im running XP Home, and i cant get that tasklist to show up

Uses a program alled ProcessExplore tho, and it gives me following service under svchosts:
DcomLaunch

RPC

DNS-client

SSDP Discovery Service
TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper Service

HTTP SSL

Bluetooth support service

Messenger service (\Msn messenger\usnsvc.dll)

And one with loads of strings

Any ideas ?

 

hmm? I only get 3 svchost processes and total of 20 processes running after startup. Have you used the Great Tweaking Companion? Check sections "Startup programs" and "Services" in it.

 

You have to open a cmd (command) window so that you get a dos prompt before typing "tasklist /svc"
It will give you a list of processes sorta like this-

Code:

C:\Documents and Settings\J2>tasklist /svc

Image Name                   PID Services
========================= ====== =============================================
System Idle Process            0 N/A
System                         4 N/A
smss.exe                     588 N/A
csrss.exe                    644 N/A
winlogon.exe                 680 N/A
services.exe                 728 Eventlog, PlugPlay
lsass.exe                    740 PolicyAgent, ProtectedStorage, SamSs
svchost.exe                  908 DcomLaunch, TermService
svchost.exe                  956 RpcSs
svchost.exe                 1084 AudioSrv, CryptSvc, Dhcp, dmserver, ERSvc,
                                 EventSystem, HidServ, Irmon, lanmanserver,
                                 lanmanworkstation, Netman, Nla, Schedule,
                                 SENS, ShellHWDetection, srservice, TrkWks,
                                 W32Time, winmgmt, WZCSVC
svchost.exe                 1128 Dnscache
svchost.exe                 1176 Alerter, LmHosts, SSDPSRV, WebClient
explorer.exe                1520 N/A
Ktp.exe                     1648 N/A
avgcc.exe                   1660 N/A
avgamsvr.exe                 400 Avg7Alrt
avgupsvc.exe                 416 Avg7UpdSvc
avgemc.exe                   444 AVGEMS
nvsvc32.exe                  536 NVSvc
svchost.exe                  640 stisvc
miranda32.exe               1576 N/A
firefox.exe                 1724 N/A
cmd.exe                     1136 N/A
tasklist.exe                1928 N/A
wmiprvse.exe                2000 N/A

C:\Documents and Settings\J2>

I have very much tweaked my services and startup settings, and I still have 5 SVCHOST processes. Those 5 processes control all the things you see listed on the right side. Those are services that windows runs, which you can find out more about by clicking Start> Run and typing "services.msc"
But don't go disabling stuff willy-nilly, or you'll seriously mess up your stuff.

Including the 4 processes from AVG antivirus, I have 21 processes on startup.

 

well, my cmd says that the tasklist is a unknows commando

what makes me curious is the messenger list and the http ssl ones... thats the ones i would like to kill, just dont know if it is cleaver to do so :S ive tweaked my services a bit using the guides found around this forum, so ive killed some of the services i didnt find of any use, ie. terminal service, alerter, remote disktop, indexing service, webclient, clipholder, netmeeting, error reporting service, routing and remote access...

After what i found out these services are for no real use for the average user and just takes up memory ?

 

You should be able to get away with killing these. (Assuming of course you don't use them)
Don't disable SSL. It's used pretty much every time you log in to a website ( https://)
But you should get rid of the messenger one no matter what.

 

You should also look at the User name under the Windows task Manager too, before you try to permanently disable a process.

I would not disable svchost.exe with a NETWORK SERVICE User Name. I think that might kill my wireless network. (not sure tho).

I have 8 running, Only one is using mem at 27,308k under SYSTEM User Name.
The rest are from 1,000k to only 5,000k.

It doesn't bother me.

 

in general, you might as well leave them. Those few MB of memory usage aren't going to make a difference (especially because if the services aren't used, their memory is going to end up in the pagefile anyway, so it won't even consume RAM)