Too Many Iterations of svchost.exe

Anyone know how I could fix this? I have 12 iterations of svchost.exe. I'm just wondering if this is normal because my boot times have significantly increased over time. I used to clock in at a minute flat for a cold boot, but now measure at about a minute and a half.

 

Yes its kinda normal...

Use process explorer to get a better idea of what these are running for..

>> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx

As for your boot times, you might wanna run a sweep of your computer with good AV / antispyware programs... Also, think about a complete defrag and optimize (recommend JkDefrag for this)... Also check on the startup programs (Start > run > msconfig) and also have a look at the services set to automatic... you might wanna set some of them to 'automatic (delayed start)'...

Good luck.

 

It's perfectly normal to have many svchost.exe running, I've at least 7 or 8 running atm.

To see what is using each one of the svchost.exe's, do the following:

Start -> Run -> cmd

Then type: tasklist /svc

 

To fix a boot timing issue a complete defrag and optimize is a bit of overkill. All you need to do is defrag and prioritize the actual boot files. There is a link in my signature line for details and a simple batch file to do the job using existing built-in Vista functionality, no third party tools needed at all.

Gary

 

Oh yes... How stupid of me to exclude Gary' batch file!! Sorry for that (I had it mind to say something like once u finish, complete with this boot defrag)..... Anyways, Yes, I have been using this one made by Gary and its really great

But I suggested the defrag because I thought since if he is anyway going to do a boot defrag using this file, he might as well run a complete defrag before that, just in case.. And as I learnt (and suggested and as I do these days) whenever I run a defrag, I complete with this boot defrag file from Gary... So there..

 

All right. Thanks for the help. I've already been using JKdefrag. I guess that I'll be adding that boot defrag to my list of to-dos.

 

In task manager, you can right-clck a svchost.exe process and click "Go to Services" to see what services are in that process. You may want to add "PID" (process id) to the column list in the Services tab (if it's not already there), then you can sort by it, and more easily see all the ones in one process together.

Also, if you add a Command Line column in the Processes tab, you can more easily see which svchost process is for what stuff, based on the command line args.

 

Swarmer,

GREAT FIND!!!!! I never knew that the command line option was there in Task Manger. What a HUGE help, when trying to track down what a particular process is and how it got invoked. Well done, my friend!! Rep for you!

Gary