svchost problem

hello there i wonder if any1 can help me in my issue,
every time i open my laptop i find the hard drive working alot in my background so i opened task manager and found a service named svchost taking alot of ram so i reinstalled windows and installed kaspersky internet security and the same problem apeared, so i must every time i open my laptop to close 2 svchost process (note : the sound does not close like the xp virus) any idea what do this process do and how i could close it always
http://www.mypicx.com/01012009/svchost/
thank you

 

svchost is a vital component to Windows processes.

It's best to leave them alone.

 

svchost.exe is part of Windows that lets it run a certain way. Every time a service needs a separate instance of it, it'll create another process with the same name. In a standard Vista, you will see two svchosts taking a lot of RAM, and lots of smaller ones.

A simple Google search tells you what it is - shouldn't have wasted all that time reinstalling.

There are complex ways of making those processes take less RAM - that being shutting down unnecessary services.

 

i terminated 2/3 svchost and the laptop is working perfectly and the harddrive lamp is not always on that means i am saving the harddrive work time while downloading overnight, can u tell what svchost do i can understand (i close 2 of them nothing happens but just saves ram)

 

regarding the process, a detailed explanation is here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314056

in case that you're interested what's the particular svchost.exe connected with, you may try process monitor, available here:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx
- launch it and go to menu Tools - Process Tree

 

Check this out mate

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-us/help/057580a1-7002-4f43-9240-a74f42cb05c91033.mspx#EV

 

thank your for your responce
at least this means that my svchost is not a virus

 

Or simply enter tasklist /svc in a command prompt window

 

In Vista, you can right-click the svchost processes, and click Go To Services.

 

Task Manager > View > Select Columns > Command Line

Will also let you see what svchost is running.

 

You can get quite detailed info about what each instance of svchost is doing by using Sysinternals' Process Explorer (google on those last three words and one of the first couple of hits that come back should take you right to the Sysinternals' webpage on Microsoft's website).